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Barack Obama Focuses On Traffic Zam+Safer and Smarter Driving

American President Barack Obama focuses To make driving safer and smarter.
Obama took a quick trip across the Potomac to visit the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, a facility in McLean, Virginia that focuses on highway technologies that help make driving safer and smarter.
Obama opened his remarks contextualizing the time and money that Americans spend on transportation, he talked about the importance of investing in new infrastructure technologies and renewing the Highway Trust Fund, as well as Congress’s continued inaction on important policies that would positively benefit millions of Americans.
One study shows that Americans spend 5.5 billion hours stuck in traffic each year, which costs us $120 billion in wasted time and gas -,, that’s 800 bucks per commuter.
,,,Funding infrastructure projects helps our families, it fuels our economy, and it better positions America for the future.
But funding for infrastructure projects is about to run out because Congress has failed to act. The Highway Trust Fund, which supports infrastructure projects around the country, is in danger of running dry,,,
Source White House