Rotten Roads Ahead: U.S. Infrastructure Is Falling Apart

The U.S. transportation system is in danger of falling apart, and will take down the economy with it, Bill Shuster, chairman of the House of Representatives Transportation Committee, said today while Reuters was keeping notes: "If we don't deal with this issue at some point, as I said, we will reach a tipping point and the transportation system may not recover and we will fall behind the rest of the world." According to Shuster, the U.S. transportation system has already "gone from being one of the top three, four (or) five systems in the world to now we're 23 or 24, so we need to act." A recent study from the American Society of Civil Engineers estimated the United States needs to spend $2.75 trillion to maintain and improve its infrastructure by 2020. The ASCE gave America's roads a D- from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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