Transportation

1. Defend existing road funding against any diversion of monies and monitor the increased funding for roads, bridges, maintenance and construction and oppose State Question 744, the Helping Oklahoma Public Education initiative, which would require drastic budget cuts to other state services unless there is a large tax increase.
2. Support changing state statutes to allow county governments to partner with communities to improve transportation corridors, regardless of the population of the community.
3. Support the building of the Gilcrease Expressway and Bridge through any funding mechanism available in order to expedite this long overdue transportation system; a partnership with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority may be beneficial.
4. Support moving the remaining thirty percent of motor vehicle fees, which currently go into the state general revenue fund, to transportation priority areas which may include state highways, city and county streets, and public transit. 
5. Support dedicated funding for public transportation annual operations and capital projects in Oklahoma.  Raise the annual apportionment to $10 million and ensure that it will be dedicated to public transportation.
6. Support legislation to authorize the study by OTA of the feasibility of rail transit between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, and within the Tulsa and Oklahoma City areas.
7. Study indexing the transportation R.O.A.D.S. fund cap to an index that reflects inflation in materials and labor for transportation projects.
8. Establish and protect mega load corridors, free of special permits, with a minimum height and width clearance of 35 feet, north, south, east and west from the Port of Catoosa through Tulsa and across the state.
9. Support development of a coalition to look at transportation funding to develop a strategy to broaden the sources and increase the total amount going to transportation and its impact on the general fund.
10. Support timely reauthorization of the federal surface transportation programs, including funding for high priority projects: reconstruction of the I-244 bridges over the Arkansas River, reconstruction of I-244, widening of I-44 east to the Will Rogers Turnpike and expansion to 6 lanes of US 169 north to SH 266.
11. Support Senator Inhofe’s request for $50 million for the Arkansas River corridor to match local state and private funding for river infrastructure.
12. Support appropriations to deepen the McClellan-Kerr waterway to 12’ and to widen the last 50 miles to the Port of Catoosa.
13. Support efforts to temporarily and permanently fund the Highway Trust Fund.
14. Request that Oklahoma's federal delegation work on securing Oklahoma's fair share of US Department of Transportation section 5309 bus capital funding, perhaps through a formula,  for our statewide public transportation programs.
15. Secure funding for intermodal connections between the Port of Catoosa and the airport.
16. Secure funding to extend the sealed railroad corridor east from downtown to Peoria.