U.S. Infrastructure Crumbling, According to Report Card

[Ruby Romaine]

On March 9 at 10:30 a.m., ASCE released the 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure with updated grades on the condition of our roads, bridges, drinking water, transit systems, energy and schools, among others. You may view a replay of the Webcast of the news conference on the Infrastructure Report Card Web site.

To determine the grades, ASCE evaluated existing data reports of the condition, performance, capacity and funding relative to actions by policy makers for each category. In 2001, ASCE gave the infrastructure an overall grade of D+ and maintained that the nation needed to invest $1.6 trillion over five years to improve the situation.


http://www.asce.org/

[Ruby Romaine]

1. but hey -that's not important!

this report must have come from those bleeding heart liburul engineers!

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Decaying Infrastructure: Another Form of Convergence

Decaying infrastructure is yet another sign of how the so-called "Conservative" movement and the Republican Party are pushing economic and political patterns that are slowly transforming the USA from the first of the industrialized powers to the top of the Third World.

[Cuban_Liberal]

3. It's been crumbling for years.

*sigh*

[NewJeffCT]

4. Well, we're still waiting for Reagan's tax cuts to trickle down...

We're still waiting for Reagan's millionaire supply-side tax cuts to trickle down into our infrastructure... I'm sure it's coming any day now!