Failing U.S. transportation system will imperil prosperity, report finds

[malletgirl02]

"The United States is saddled with a rapidly decaying and woefully underfunded transportation system that will undermine its status in the global economy unless Congress and the public embrace innovative reforms, a bipartisan panel of experts concludes in a report released Monday.

U.S. investment in preservation and development of transportation infrastructure lags so far behind that of China, Russia and European nations that it will lead to "a steady erosion of the social and economic foundations for American prosperity in the long run."

That is a central conclusion in a report issued on behalf of about 80 transportation experts who met for three days in September 2009 at the University of Virginia. Few of their conclusions were groundbreaking, but the weight of their credentials lends gravity to their findings. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/04/AR2010100402269.html

[elleng]

1. Its really a no-brainer, and I/we've been waiting for years

for our 'decision-makers' to get their heads around this and do something. Answers SO MANY problems, especially now.

[nashville_brook]

2. k and r