they are part of a broad coalition to fund high-frequency bus service and road improvements are out hamilton county. in addition to connecting more workers to jobs, highway congestion. it is pretty simple. fewer people on the road. those that do can get to work faster. public transit reduces greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. the fastest growing source of carbon pollution. we are about the trade-off between creating jobs and climate change, but public transit we know does both. it reduces emissions while creating new jobs in manufacturing and operating buses and subways. the fast act in 2015 provided record level of investment in public transportation that expires at the end of september and the amount of backlog repairs of the nations transit systems has continued to grow peaking at $99 billion in u.s. dot most recent estimate. what these backlogs mean, more delays when real cars and buses breakdown they mean longer commutes, more crowded highways. in cleveland, the rta operates a fleet of 74 railcars. all of them, every single one of them is more than 34 years old. ne