Hill Aide Warns Transport Unaware of Security Costs

ASHINGTON — Transportation companies do not yet realize how much new security requirements are going to cost them, a senior Democratic staff member on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee said last week.

“I think the transportation segments are going to find the costs are more significant than they estimated because the problems are so big and the federal government doesn’t have the resources to do what it wants to do,” said Carl Bentzel, Democratic senior counsel to the committee.

Bentzel spoke at a panel discussion on who should be responsible for paying to protect the nation’s transportation infrastructure. The discussion was part of a National Defense Transportation Association May 12-13 conference.