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...issue is widespread, said Dan LeClair, who teaches city planning at Boston University. "It's not just pipes," he said. "It's bridges, it's roads, it's electrical systems, it's a variety of things that can happen in a man-made environment that can have a disastrous effect." A recent report by the Urban Land Institute determined that America's comparatively low investment in various transportation infrastructure - airports, public transit, railway systems, roads and bridges - has created an "emerging crisis." Of the 30 state transportation planning directors surveyed for the report, 25 said the nation's transportation infrastructure...
...more politically visible," said Miller, adding that all Philadelphia streets are paved regularly while sewers and other systems are treated reactively, rather than preventively. "Out of sight, out of mind is a real accurate way to look at how city funds are spent." Until something dramatic happens. Says LeClair of Boston University: "Often times these events can be helpful in getting people to take action...
...What the university keeps saying is ‘You are not a worker,’ but that’s not what I’m seeing,” said a striking teaching assistant, Amy LeClair, in a speech to more than 300 activists at last Thursday’s rally. “I am essentially being fired from my job, not only for the current semester but for the future semester, as well,” said LeClair, who is also a graduate student in sociology...
...LeClair said she is one of an estimated six “graduate assistants”—a term used to describe graduate students holding teaching and research positions—who received letters last week informing them that they were suspected of being on strike and listing potential penalties...
...Flyers fan, mostly because of John LeClair, who is from Vermont...