Mike Bloomberg is expanding his campaign staff nationwide including opening an office in Queens today.
His campaign is also releasing more detailed policy plans, including infrastructure. The highlights include:
- Spending $850 billion over 10 years to improve roads, bridges, and dams.
- Repairing 240,000 miles of roads and 16,000 bridges by 2025.
- Establishing a $1 billion annual “pothole” fund.
- Building fast rail links to 10 of the busiest U.S. airports by 2030 and completing one high-speed rail line by 2025 and three by 2030.
We asked Bloomberg's longtime DOT Commissioner, who put together the plan, how he plans to pay for it.
"Mike's tax plan actually outlines how it is we're going to pay for it. It's a $1.2 trillion-dollar plan, but unlike all of the other candidates that have big infrastructure plans, Mike has a vision and a goal to connect America differently. So it's not enough to just keep spending money. If that worked, we would not be stuck in a sea of red lights, broken bridges, bad potholes, the current strategy isn't working," said Former NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan.
Bloomberg also plans to double his ad spending.
He's already spent more than $300 million on TV, radio, and digital ads.