White House: It's Time to Rebuild America

[flpoljunkie]

America's Roads and Bridges Are Crumbling, and There's Something Congress Can Do Right Now:

The funding to fix our crumbling roads and bridges is running out, and only Congress can reauthorize it. Find out what will happen if Congress doesn't act, and see how the President's plan would rebuild our infrastructure in a smarter way:



http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/rebuild-america

[seabeckind]

1. I don't care for the approach

it looks too much like the shovel ready stuff...perpetuating a system that might have outlived its usefulness and needs to be redesigned.

In the place I live they are madly adding lanes to highways because they've reached capacity. Then developers move farther out and we need more capacity out there, ad nauseum.

As you drive out the old main street from downtown you hit ghost "towns", old strip malls that mostly abandoned, apartments that no ones wants to live in, etc.

Then add in the global warming problem, one that is so impacted by the auto and we have a real conflict of interest.

One hand we are spending money to perpetuate the current carbon spewing system and on the other saying we want to spend money to cut emissions.

Seems like we need a policy shift? Maybe a much smarter "rebuild"?

[Xyzse]

2. That sign does not tell me much.

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The Talking Point:

Providing Certainty that cities, states, and private investors need to break ground on major projects.

That though I agree with this, does this mean more tolls on the highways, and what else?

Sure it sounds ok, but it doesn't really give me any detail, even when I went to the site.

Well hopefully it is done well, since we really do need to do something about the crumbling infrastructure.
I just hope they don't balance it on the backs of the middle, and actually tax from up top.

Seriously, that money hoarded up top does nothing for the greater economy.

[marble falls]

3. It is time to rebuild America. Roads, bridges, National Parks, public housing, ..........

Takes the same sort of administration an armed force does, all the man/woman power, without the weaponry.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Is this part of Obama's turning Freeways, Highways, & Interstates into Toll Access Only roads?