For The We-Built-It-Crowd: Burden for rebuilding infrastructure may fall to states

[unhappycamper]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/burden-for-rebuilding-infrastructure-may-fall-to-states/2012/10/27/df8c0bdc-16e8-11e2-9855-71f2b202721b_story.html



Courtesy of 11th Street Bridge project - Federal funding is projected to fall short in repairing roads and bridges and meeting other transportation needs.


Burden for rebuilding infrastructure may fall to states
By Ashley Halsey III, Published: October 27

Maryland needs more than $100 million a year to fix bridges. Virginia needs $125 million a year to repave crumbling roads in suburban Washington. The District needs $806 million to replace a rusting bridge across the Anacostia River.

The bill for all that, and more, eventually will land on taxpayers’ doorsteps. But the postmark won’t read “Washington.” Instead, the tax bill will come from state or local governments struggling to fill the growing void in federal funding.

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Infrastructure has been the elephant in the room in Washington for years. Only a few of the people running for office this year have mentioned it, and none of them have embraced it.

The reason was captured by a single sentence in the Standard & Poor’s report: The “country has a $2.2 trillion backlog of infrastructure projects.”

[exboyfil]

1. So pass through states like mine

shut down interstates because we cannot afford the expense. While we derive economic benefit from them, the nation as a whole is what benefits from it. We have better places to spend our tax dollars that will better benefit our citizens.

[Teamster Jeff]

2. Repugs always are pushing to privatize

We must resist more tollways, toll bridges etc. If we cant maintain our interstate highways we continue on our way to banana republic status