No on Prop 6 Campaign Launches Statewide Television and Digital Ads Featuring Engineers and Showcasing Critical Local Transportation Projects Threatened by Prop 6 - The Attack on Bridge and Road Safety
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the No on Prop 6 campaign launched regionalized television and digital ads across California, featuring 2018 President of the American Society of Civil Engineers Kristina Swallow, P.E., highlighting critical transportation projects threatened by Prop 6, the attack on bridge and road safety.
To watch the ad, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB7KfmD0vMU.
The ads are regionalized and feature local data showing how Prop 6 threatens California's transportation infrastructure including statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, showing 1,600 bridges in California are structurally deficient.
Prop 6 eliminates more than $5 billion annually in existing transportation funds and stops funding for more than 6,500 bridge and road safety, transportation and public transit improvement projects currently underway throughout California.
Below is a transcript of the statewide version of the ad featuring Kristina Swallow, P.E. 2018 President of the American Society of Civil Engineers, as well as substantiation for the data presented. Localized versions of this ad were released today in the state's major media markets:
We need to get serious about California's failing infrastructure.
Crumbling bridges and roads put lives at risk every day.
In California, 1,600 bridges and overpasses are structurally deficient.
Yet Prop 6 eliminates $5 billion in annual funding for critical infrastructure projects.
Threatening 6,500 local bridge and road safety upgrades already underway.
Prop 6 attacks the safety of our local bridges and roads. And makes traffic congestion even worse.
NO on 6.
It's a dangerous road.
For substantiation of figures used in the ad, please see below:
Audio | Words on Screen | Substantiation |
We need to get serious about California's failing infrastructure. | Kristina Swallow, P.E. 2018 President American Society of Civil Engineers | Swallow's ASCE profile: https://www.asce.org/templates/person-candidate-detail.aspx?id=18684 |
Crumbling bridges and roads put lives at risk every day. | • More than 3,600 fatal crashes in California in 2016 (NHTSA, 2016 Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes): https://noprop6.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NHSTA.pdf • Roadway features are a likely contributor in "approximately one-third of fatal traffic crashes" (August 2018 TRIP Report, p.11): http://www.tripnet.org/docs/CA_Transportation_by_the_Numbers_TRIP_Report_Aug_2018.pdf | |
In California 1,600 bridges and overpasses are structurally deficient. | California: 1,600 Bridges and Overpasses Structurally Deficient *Federal Highway Administration | U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ • 2017 National Bridge Inventory ASCII California: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/no10/county17.cfm#ca |
Yet Prop 6 eliminates $5 billion in annual funding for critical infrastructure projects | Eliminates $5 billion dedicated to California | According to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, Prop 6 will result in "Reduced ongoing state revenues of $5.1 billion from the elimination of fuel and vehicle taxes passed by the Legislature in 2017. These revenues mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs" |
Threatening 6,500 local bridge and road safety upgrades already underway | Threatens 6,500 transportation repairs locally | More than 6,500 projects across the state are at risk per Rebuilding CA Website: http://rebuildingca.ca.gov/map.html • Repaving 205 miles of Highway 1 from the Los Angeles/Orange County line to the City of Redondo Beach, along Pacific Coast Highway, Topaz Street, and Dewey Street • Repave 104 miles on 1-880 in Alameda County • 30 miles of pavement improvements on SR 87 in San Jose • 126 repaving projects in Kings County • Pavement preservation project on 26 lane miles of SR 17 from north of Santa's Village Road in Scotts Valley to the Santa Clara County line • 56 miles of pavement improvements on US 50 from I-5 to Watt Ave • Repaving approximately 92 miles of residential streets in Modesto |
Prop 6 attacks the safety of our local bridges and roads | Prop 6 attacks safety | Examples of road and bridge safety improvement projects at risk per Rebuilding CA Website: http://rebuildingca.ca.gov/map.html • Repair San Gabriel River Bridge on I-405 • Repair northbound I-405 to southbound I-605 Connector in Los Angeles County • Street striping to increase visibility and maintenance on 220 traffic signals, 11,575 street lights, and 30,677 traffic signs throughout Modesto • Ongoing maintenance projects including pothole repairs, drainage culvert replacements, hazard clearing, and roadway dig outs to prevent flooding in the City of Paradise • Replace the Victory Road Bridge in San Joaquin County • Repair damaged bridge barriers on Brea Boulevard Bridges over Brea Creek |
And makes traffic congestion worse | Makes traffic congestion worse and disclaimer | Examples of traffic congestion projects at risk per Rebuilding CA Website: http://rebuildingca.ca.gov/map.html • Construct an additional lane on Arrow Highway off-ramp and 39.5 miles on I-605 from I-10 to I-210 (south of Huntington Drive) in Los Angeles • Improvement of the I-15/Railroad Canyon Interchange in Lake Elsinore to enhance safety and reduce congestion • Upgrade traffic monitoring elements on I-5 at I-605; I-405 at I-105; I-10 at I-5/I-10 and I-605 at I-10 • Replace traffic monitoring elements on I-5 and multiple locations on state roadways in the counties of Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne • Install 7 ramp meters along I-80 at various locations in Yolo and Sacramento counties |
About No on Prop 6 – the Attack on Bridge and Road Safety:
The California Professional Firefighters, California Association of Highway Patrolmen, American Society of Civil Engineers, business, local government, labor, environmentalists and first responders urge NO on Prop 6 because it will stop critical transportation projects and jeopardize the safety of our bridges and roads.
Prop 6 eliminates more than $5 billion annually in existing transportation funds and stops funding for more than 6,500 bridge and road safety, transportation and public transit improvement projects currently underway throughout California.
Prop 6 is opposed by a broad coalition of more than 450 public safety organizations, engineers, local transportation agencies, cities, counties, environmental groups, business and labor organizations throughout California.
www.noprop6.com
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Paid for by No on Prop 6: Stop the Attack on Bridge & Road Safety, sponsored by business, labor, local governments and transportation advocates Committee Major Funding from California Alliance for Jobs State Building and Construction Trades Council of California Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition Funding details at www.fppc.ca.gov |
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