Business Coalition Calls Upon Virginia’s Elected
Officials to “Do Whatever Is Necessary” to
Address Transportation Funding Crisis

Sixteen major Northern Virginia private sector organizations representing nearly 10,000 businesses and hundreds of thousands of workers have called upon Virginia’s next Governor and members of both parties in the legislature to work together in 2010 and “do whatever is necessary” to secure significant, new reliable transportation revenues “to erase Virginia’s crippling transportation deficit, which threatens Virginia’s long-term prosperity."

After detailing the serious nature of Virginia’s transportation funding crisis, the Resolution embraces four fundamental principles

Bonds, public-private partnerships, tolls and other currently used mechanisms are part of the solution, but are inadequate individually or collectively to address well-documented needs.
Fiscal and political realities dictate that the Commonwealth’s transportation needs cannot be met without new, reliable revenues in the form of dedicated taxes and/or fees.
“No tax” pledges on transportation funding by candidates for public office are contrary to the public’s best interests and Virginia’s future prosperity.
Elected officials must work together in a bipartisan manner and do whatever is necessary to solve this problem.

To read the Resolution in its entirety, click here.

The resolution is non-partisan in nature. It is not an endorsement of any candidate of any party for any office, but is intended as a set of guiding principles for elected officials of both parties and all offices to work together to restore stability to Virginia’s transportation program to ensure Northern Virginia’s and the Commonwealth’s long-term prosperity.

As a Rule, No Sector is More
Anti-Tax than the Business Community.
But the Need for Reliable, New Transportation Funding
is Obvious, And Virginia’s Future Must Come First.