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...article written just before the election, Alec McGinnis noted in the Washington Post that, in addition to being the nation??s first African-American president, Barack Obama could also break another barrier: He could become the first “metropolitan” candidate in a nation still obsessed with its agrarian heritage. “Would a big-city president address as never before,” McGinnis asked, “the problems of our urban cores—blighted housing, shoddy public transit, dismal schools...
This inconvenience is slowly turning into a legitimate danger; about 27.1 percent of the nation??s 590,750 bridges are rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to be either “functionally obsolete” or “structurally deficient.” The rating of “structurally deficient” is the same rating that was given to the I-35W Bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minnesota in 2007, and while not every bridge receiving that rating is in danger of imminent structural failure, the large number...
...Americans watch the financial markets crash and burn, it is essential not to allow the rest of the world around us to do so as well, but the state of our nation??s transportation infrastructure is getting to be so dire that immediate attention is crucial...
...with it, in favor of an infrastructure overhaul that most constituents don’t even understand the necessity of? The answer is that he or she would not and do not, leading to a precarious rotting of the infrastructure network that forms the arteries and veins connecting our nation??s vital organs...
...ASCE estimates that it would take $1.6 trillion over a span of five years in order to bring the nation??s infrastructure into a state of good repair. Looking at merely one subcategory of these projects—transportation infrastructure—the Department of Transportation estimates that in order to simply maintain current highway and bridge conditions, it will cost $78.7 billion per year. Unfortunately, in reporting on the current state of US infrastructure, the ASCE gave it a ‘D,’ thereby indicating that simply maintaining it will not be sufficient...