Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, cited ASCE’s study, “Failure to Act: Economic Impacts of Status Quo Investment Across Infrastructure Systems,” as ideal starting point for the infrastructure financing discussion.
Plans are moving ahead this week for two massive projects that would deliver 100-year flood protection for the lower Mississippi Valley. The question is whether the money and political will exists for the two protection systems to materialize.
It's not clear why one team opted out of competition for the estimated $11 billion I-270/Beltway expansion in a major commuter corridor outside Washington, D.C.