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| | Bernstein Testifies to Illinois General Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Second, airports have very little oversight on the issue of the external, surface traffic that they generate, yet outside of major downtowns, are likely to be the largest generators of surface traffic, congestion and air emissions in their metropolitan regions. |
 | | The state could issue guidance, convene a meeting of interested parties to promote voluntary action, or the General Assembly could pass an amendment to the transportation act under which IDOT operates, to provide conforming language to federal requirements that airports receiving federal assistance must provide easy access to public transportation for surface transportation. |
 | | In general, as the committee considers proposals to consolidate and enhance metropolitan planning functions, it should explicitly require that the missing half of the travel market equation, inter-city travel, be addressed explicitly in both metropolitan and State Transportation Improvement Plans and in long-range Regional Transportation Improvement Plans. |
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