1.   While the list of proposed transportation projects is being refined, possible methods to close the funding gap are being considered.

2.   Although politicians and transportation planners do not dispute the need to retrofit shaky freeway structures, they say it is a shame that public transportation projects could be delayed.

3.   Another issue is whether the budget plan will include a ballot measure to make it easier for voters to approve local sales tax increases to fund transportation projects.

4.   Any leftover money could go into other regional transportation projects, including road construction or public transportation.

5.   At every opportunity over the past three years, he has funneled into the state all manner of federal money, from disaster aid to transportation projects.

6.   But the last few months have marked a new low for the troubled transportation project.

7.   Failure to do so could disrupt state and local transportation projects nationwide.

8.   Federal money for transportation projects could also be withheld.

9.   Green separated himself from his Democratic colleagues by saying that he would push to use revenue from the World Trade Center to finance public transportation projects.

10.   Gasoline taxes here, both state and federal, are earmarked for transportation projects.