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Local Organization Calls Corbett's Transportation Funding Package A Win

By Tim Jimenez

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (CBS) -- Governor Corbett is slated to sign the transportation funding package passed by the state legislature. A local organization, which has been pushing for more infrastructure dollars, is looking forward to the projects to get rolling.

The long-wait is over for King of Prussia based GVF, the Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Association.

"We're on our third governor that has tried to address this issue," says GVF executive director Rob Henry, "It's been a challenge, and the bridges and our highways and our transit systems have only gotten older."

Henry says he's thrilled the state can start tackling infrastructure issues, like the Route 422 bridge over the Schuylkill river in Montgomery County.

"Carrying over 100,000 cars a day, which is about the same volume as the Ben Franklin and the Walt Whitman Bridge," he says. "The congestion keeps getting worse. We know the bridge is a chokepoint and it's also structurally deficient."

Henry says everyone is affected by the bill. Drivers may pay more at the pump and registration fees will go up, but he says the benefits outweighs the costs.

"An urban area like Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs you have a much more robust transit system," he says. "If you live in a rural area, which the primary economy is agriculture and farming, it impacts those trucks, those bridges."

And if lawmakers didn't address this now, Henry says it would have cost residents in the state even more down the road.

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