Word: costly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidents and chief executives, 36% said they have lost job efficiency because of air-travel delays. To be sure of arriving on time at a meeting in another city, many business travelers take the precaution of flying the night before their appointment, saddling their company with the additional cost of a hotel room...
...answer. "We cannot pour asphalt and concrete on the ground fast enough, and in the face of today's political and social environment, I am not sure that people would accept it," says Robert Farris, chief of the Federal Highway Administration. As a practical matter, the cost of buying up suburban houses worth at least $250,000 apiece for a right-of-way would be prohibitive...
...road rebuilding is a budget-busting enterprise. A stretch of Chicago's long-neglected Dan Ryan Expressway that is being rebuilt and widened in places from eight lanes to ten will cost $210 million for just three miles of road. Illinois is getting 90% of the money from the U.S. Government, but that source is not expanding. Federal highway outlays -- financed mostly by gasoline and other excise taxes -- increased from $6.1 billion in fiscal 1977 to $12.8 billion in 1987, barely keeping up with inflation. TRIP estimates the cost of repairing the 278,400 miles of highways in poor...
...Also costly to fix are America's crumbling bridges. Many are too narrow or corroded to handle the load of traffic from connecting roads. The 1,850-ft., four-lane Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit with Windsor, Ont., which seemed spacious when it opened in 1929, suffers daily backups, pinching the flow of trade between the U.S. and Canada. Federal surveys indicate that 42% of the 573,928 bridges more than 20 ft. long need to be rehabilitated or replaced, at a total cost of more than $50 billion...
Because new airports are financed by gate fees, airlines have sometimes been reluctant to support them -- the added cost would mean higher fares or squeezed profits. But the major carriers have formed a lobbying group, Partnership for Improved Air Travel, which among other things is urging the Government to lead an airport-building program similar to the interstate- highway push...