Jul 30 2009
Political Blog Daily Kos has a great posting today about the worst roads in America and what it means for our future prosperity and travel. The posting sites traffic and road condition data from numerous sources including ASCE (I couldn’t resist the shameless self-promotion) and publishes the results of a recent Freakonomics Blog survey of drivers about [...]
Jul 24 2009
Then again, you might not. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged as one of the leaders in the fight to increase the pot of money available to build and maintain the nation’s highways, bridges and transit systems. This is surprising because the right-leaning business group is usually the sort of group to oppose a [...]
Jul 15 2009
As we reported yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 3202) and ASCE was on hand to endorse the legislation and provide commentary on the condition of the nation’s water infrastructure. H.R. 3202 would set up a fund to provide $10 billion annually for the nation’s drinking and wastewater [...]
Jul 14 2009
Everyone seems to be pinching pennies or clipping coupons these days. Why not add throwing money down the drain to the list? No, not wasting money, I mean investing in our water infrastructure. Other than when they back up or break, most of us don’t give much thought to the pipes in our community [...]
Jul 06 2009
The National Journal’s Transportation Expert’s Blog features commentary on current issues in transportation policy. As one of the regular contributors a.k.a. one of the experts, on the blog, ASCE’s Executive Director Patrick J. Natale, P.E. has been discussing ways to improve the nation’s transportation infrastructure with other leaders in the industry. The blog is free [...]