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Is aging infrastructure slowing the U.S.?
International Herald Tribune ^
| June 26,2007
| Daniel Altman
Posted on 06/27/2007 8:01:19 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Just like the politicians are ignoring the majority of Americans on amnesty, they are ignoring our crumbling highways and bridges. You can't just build a freeway anymore or even widen them because 20 environmental impact studies or some similar crap stops everything in its tracks.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
our infrastructure is simply crumbling Alaska, with next to no infrastructure to crumble, feels the pain.
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:05:31 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
The U.S. has had the world’s largest economy since 1860, according to figures I’ve seen.
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:06:04 AM PDT
by
BushMeister
("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I’ll give this a great big, “DUH!!!!!”
China builds a 120 MPH frieght railway to it’s interior, while we tear up track for “Walking Paths”...
We spend BILLIONS to rebuild a single interchange, instead of spending less than the yearly interest payment to help start up a rail service on existing track that would relieve the traffic that requires the rebuild in the first place.
We build HUGE, monsterous sky palaces while small city after small city drops off the air service network.
Infrastructure isn’t nearly as politicly sexy as a Senior Center, or a pretty and new Forest Service Welcome Center that they can’t afford to staff.
Our priorities have been screwed up for a LONG time now...
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:06:30 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(VOTE Democrat! You don't those stinkin' Freedoms anyway!)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
To eliminate its weaknesses, the United States would have to spend about $160 billion a year over five years, Roth added. That total of $800 billion is not so different from the $700 billion in estimated direct spending on the war in Iraq.At least this is a serious assessment that has not been politicized in any way.
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:08:54 AM PDT
by
wideawake
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Not only is it roads and things as such, there are a lot of electrical utility companies & the government that are now realising the electrical grids in this country are in need of major upgrades, other countries around the world are hot markets for new electrical infrastructure.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
"The American public is really aware of infrastructure,
I agree with him to an extent...but I think most people are really only aware of our infrastructure when it fails. That it requires maintenance is probably never given much thought.
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:12:37 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Highways and bridges don’t vote.
Assistance program recipients do.
Three guesses who gets the money.
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:12:56 AM PDT
by
xDGx
To: tcrlaf
To: tcrlaf
Shedding some illegals could help lighten the load on the infrastructure...
To: MD_Willington_1976
the electrical grids in this country are in need of major upgrades
You can say that again. It is a miracle that what we have now still works so incredibly well. If we want electric cars anytime soon though, we had better get busy.
For those interested in some recent grid-related items:
DOE Provides up to $51.8 Million to Modernize the U.S. Electric Grid System
Superconductor Research Crucial to Improving Power Delivery Equipment
http://www.energy.gov/news/5180.htm
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:23:15 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Our politicians would rather provide us with bread and circuses..
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:34:50 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Is aging infrastructure slowing the U.S.?
No, but our aging drivers are.
To: AngelesCrestHighway; JohnGalt
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:56:41 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Confidence in Congress has hit an all-time low of 14%)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Just rename all the highways, bridges, airports and phone companies after Robert Byrd and they'll get funding.
Problem solved. Next!
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:58:19 AM PDT
by
paddles
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Is aging infrastructure slowing the U.S.? Yes.
The "It's all about me" society and stategic social planning are fatally and permanently incompatible.
One hundred percent of the large projects that created the greatest culture in the world, would not be possible today.
Next question...
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posted on
06/27/2007 8:59:38 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: BushMeister
The U.S. has had the worlds largest economy since 1860, according to figures Ive seen. That has been steadily declining, and recently at an accelerated pace, since about 1960, when "environmentalism" and the "great Society" became the national obsessions.
See post #16.
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posted on
06/27/2007 9:02:36 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
The press has been whining about “aging infrastructure” for 30 years. I was a reporter in the early 80’s and remember dozens of stories just like this one.
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posted on
06/27/2007 9:13:04 AM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: P-40
$51.8 million? Hell, you can’t put in a medium sized substation (distribution, not transmission) for that amount anymore.
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posted on
06/27/2007 9:16:06 AM PDT
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Not altogether surprising that a group of engineers recommend infrastructure improvements. As my dad used to tell me, never ask a tire salesman if you need new tires.
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posted on
06/27/2007 9:16:44 AM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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