Senator Tedisco: Local Roads Matter!

Senator Jim Tedisco (R, C, I, REF – Glenville) today joined many of his colleagues and hundreds of local highway superintendents who maintain our local roads and bridges to call for additional state assistance to keep our Upstate infrastructure safe.

“These highway professionals are some of the unsung heroes in our local governments who are out there plowing on cold and snowy winter nights and paving in hot summer days to keep our roads safe. The integrity and safety of our above-ground and underground infrastructure matters for our economy and small businesses, our schools, our healthcare and our homes. As we support our CHIPS program for above ground infrastructure, we also need to invest in our underground safe water infrastructure as I called for in my Safe Water infrastructure Action Program – SWAP program, which would provide annual funding to all municipalities to swap out old, damaged pipes and water mains to fight that lurking monster in our underground infrastructure and stop costly breaks before they happen,” said Tedisco.

“To keep New York’s economy moving, local roads and infrastructure truly matters!”