Realities must be faced and addressed through funded programs. It will take enormous political will to seek hard data, share it with every community and begin preparing sensible action plans. Many public works and transportation professionals and their associations have been relegated to a sideline position due to their insistence that infrastructure issues are in fact a huge portion of the national agenda. Infrastructure provides the basic internal framework of the American culture; it is elemental to economic growth, public health, quality of life, security, and National emergency response capability. Can we prepare in time?
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