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Investing In our Infrastructure to Create Jobs in our Community

Studies have shown that investments in our infrastructure lead to new economic activity and job creation – that’s why, as a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I’m proud to help lead the fight to invest in Illinois’ roads, bridges, rail lines and airports.

The 17^th district is home to three international airports (Quad-City International Airport, Peoria International Airport and Chicago Rockford International Airport), in addition to smaller regional airports. Our community is also home to thousands of miles of highway that connect east to west and north to south, and bring goods and people over the Mississippi River. Our districts’ entire western border is met by the Mississippi River, on which the barge transportation of agricultural products, and other products and goods, is key to commerce in the region. And with critical rail projects like the Quad-City to Chicago rail line still being developed, I am optimistic about the potential for new economic development opportunities in the future.

In 2015, I was proud to help lead a bipartisan effort to pass the first long-term highway bill in a decade. This legislation is projected to provide Illinois with over $7.5 billion in funding for highway, transit and transportation safety programs through fiscal year 2020.

If we want to attract new employers to our region and create more good-paying jobs, we must strengthen our infrastructure system.

Below are several recent actions I’ve taken to grow our economy through transportation and infrastructure efforts.

More on Transportation & Infrastructure

Press Release

May 20, 2014

Bustos Bill To Improve Illinois Locks & Dams Wins Approval In House, Moves One Step Closer To Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos’ bipartisan legislation to help speed up repairs and upgrades to the aging locks and dams on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers passed the House on a wide bipartisan basis. Provisions of her legislation, which was sponsored in the Senate by Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk, was included […]

Press Release

May 15, 2014

Durbin, Kirk, Bustos, Davis: Bipartisan Bill to Improve Illinois Locks & Dams Included In Water Resources Reform And Development Act

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) and U.S. Representatives Cheri Bustos (D-IL) and Rodney Davis (R-IL) announced that key provisions of their bipartisan and bicameral legislation to help speed up repairs and upgrades to the aging locks and dams on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers were included in the […]

News

April 24, 2014

Quad-City Times: Transportation secretary gets close up look at I-74 bridge

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx sees the need to put a long-term plan into place to pay for bridge, highway and transit projects across the country, and he said Thursday the administration would like to do more to help the Interstate 74 bridge project. Foxx, who was in the Quad-Cities for a few hours at […]

Press Release

March 7, 2014

Bustos Urges Illinois Communities To Apply For Federal Transportation & Infrastructure Grants Starting April 3

Today, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, urged communities across her region of Illinois to apply for federal grants available for transportation and infrastructure projects starting on April 3. More information on the application process on the next round of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants can […]

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