MIKIE SHERRILL: WE NEED A BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE TO HELP GET NEW JERSEY MOVING

Fairfield, NJ — As the most densely populated state in the country, New Jersey residents depend on sound infrastructure to get around our state and region. Yet mounting problems with our rails, bridges, and roads earned New Jersey a D+ on the American Society of Civil Engineer’s 2016 Infrastructure Scorecard. This impacts our businesses, families, and productivity, with New Jersey motorists losing $5.2 billion each year in time, wasted fuel, and repairs.

“It is hard to ignore the signs of our failing infrastructure across New Jersey,” said Mikie Sherrill. “Roads closed for years for urgent repairs, bridges barely kept open with the technology of the last century, and a stalled tunnel project under the Hudson River to New York. There is broad consensus in this country for rebuilding our infrastructure, and yet Congress has refused to acknowledge this priority. We need new leadership and new leaders who will work with both parties to help get New Jersey, and our country, moving.”

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, approximately 42 percent of our roads are deficient and 38 percent of our bridges were deficient, in critical condition, or functionally obsolete. A D-rating means:

“The infrastructure is in poor to fair condition and mostly below standard, with many elements approaching the end of their service life. A large portion of the system exhibits significant deterioration. Condition and capacity are of significant concern with strong risk of failure.”

U.S. Navy veteran and former federal prosecutor Mikie Sherrill has focused her campaign on increasing investment in New Jersey’s infrastructure. In Congress, Mikie Sherrill will:

• Work with the New Jersey and New York delegations to get federal funding for the
• Gateway Project.
• Join with members of both parties in Congress to pass an infrastructure package
• that invests in New Jersey.
• Work to bring more federal grant money back to our state for key job creating
• projects like securing broadband internet.

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