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As roads funding law goes into extension, long-term planning hamstrung
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Transportation planners were hoping today would mark the end of short-term federal funding and Wednesday would start a period of sustained flowing of highway dollars to states and local projects. Instead, Congress voted in August to extend the current transportation bill by just eight months, shorter than the term of the current funding bill. It’s a better scenario than no action, which would have threatened the movement on any road projects, but officials are still in a bind.