Many of these community-designed partnership solutions are refreshingly innovative. Some blur the traditional distinction between public and private transportation programs. What all have in common is that they connect people to jobs. This will allow us to approve grant applications from additional communities across the country. By funding programs like this one in Charlotte, this country can help make sure that the welfare programs of the 20 th century fade into our national memory, replaced by a new reality of work and responsibility in the 21 st century.
Transportation is about much more than concrete, asphalt and steel.
It is about creating new possibilities for people. And making sure that people can get to and from work is among the most important of these possibilities.