Rethinking America’s Highways: A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure

Why watch and seek to act on this Video from CPAN?

We spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair.

Listen and take notes from this video interview on C-SPAN from transportation expert Robert Poole who relates that congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides its highways. The U.S. Highway System or our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits.

Go to this timely and actionable video — Rethinking America’s Highways: A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure