Test Your Infrastructure IQ
Subject: Infrastructure 101
Name:
By rebuilding America’s roads, bridges, airports, seaports, water facilities, and transit systems, we can:
(a) Grow our economy and get hundreds of thousands of Americans back on payrolls and off of government assistance.
(b) Save lives by fixing bad roads and unsafe bridges, which contribute to more than 10,000 traffic deaths each year.
(c) Reduce the 4.8 billion hours that Americans waste annually in traffic jams and improve our productivity and quality of life.
(d) Clean the air by cutting idling vehicle emissions and expanding transit choices.
(e) Compete globally with China, India, and others who are beating us out for markets and jobs by bringing new projects on line every day.
(f) All of the above.
If you chose “All of the above,” congratulations! You get an A+.
Yet the American Society of Civil Engineers has graded the nation’s infrastructure at no better than a D.
Assignment for Congress and the administration to bring up the grade:
- Use existing dedicated revenue and budget savings to pass sufficiently funded, multi-year transportation and water bills—along with reforms to ensure that taxpayers’ money is spent wisely.
- Remove legal and regulatory impediments to unlock up to $250 billion in private sector capital for investment in American infrastructure.
- Speed up permits, cut wasteful bureaucracy, and end the ridiculous lawsuits that have slowed, stopped, or killed critical projects.
It’s time to get smart on infrastructure.
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