The article in the Star this past Sunday was, I thought, an excellent, timely one and one that raises excellent questions:
The road to ruined roads
Oil-rich Texas has built more highways and bridges than any other state, but over the next two decades it will fall $170 billion short of what it needs to keep the sprawling network in good repair.California transportation officials estimate that 60 percent of the state’s roads and a quarter of its bridges need repairing or replacing, at a projected cost of $70 billion over a decade, some $52 billion more than the available funds.
Over seven years, Kansas went from spending three times as much on highway upkeep as it did on building new roads to devoting four times as much money for construction as for maintenance. Missouri, meanwhile, shifted its spending heavily toward repairs but saw its outstanding bond debt quadruple.
And it has plenty of great, even important information in it but the question it raises, I think, for us, in general, but also for our governmental legislators from the state level, in Jefferson City, all the way to Washington and our Congressional leaders, is this:
We needs jobs in the nation. We need work. We need work for our people, our citizens. Our infrastructure needs repairing, improving and updating.
Why is not our government creating this work so we create these jobs?
I've asked this here before, specifically as it relates to Interstate 70 from St. Louis and the Illinois border to the East, all the way to Kansas City and the Kansas border in the West.
We need this.
Why isn't this happening?
More here: U.S. keeps building new highways while letting the old ones crumble
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