Transportation keeping Mississippi's economy moving: Mississippi only state in nation to have elected transportation commissioners. (Focus Transportation).

Mississippi Business Journal | March 3, 2003| | Copyright

Dick Hall, the Central District transportation commissioner, says, "We're not just building a transportation system but an economy."

U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) has been quoted as saying: "If they can't get here, they're not coming."

But no matter how you put it, everyone seems to agree that transportation infrastructure is of vital importance to the economic development of the State of Mississippi.

"One of the senatorial candidates had a sign that read 'education, transportation, jobs,"' said Wayne H. Brown, the transportation commissioner for ...

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