The 2005 highway law was temporarily extended 10 times — sometimes by days, sometimes by months — as Congress fought for a long-term replacement. The 1998 law received 12 short-term extensions before finally being reauthorized, according to Jeff Davis of the nonpartisan Eno Center for Transportation.
The short-term extensions, said former Secretary of Transportation James H. Burnley IV, “are very disruptive,” particularly for an industry that relies on long-term planning in order to work efficiently.
“States need to have the legal certainty of a stable, dependable stream of federal aid on a multiyear basis to do long-term projects,” Burnley said. “When faced with extensions of weeks, months, sometimes days, they cannot go forward on the contracting side. They cannot make legal commitments in most cases, because they don’t have … the dependable flow of federal dollars that is a large part of what they are counting on to pay their contractors.”
Higher costs
Though it’s hard to quantify, he said, such disruptions “will inevitably increase costs on some projects.”
“The cumulative impact of that is that it simply takes longer to do major projects,” he said.
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