How bad are the highways, bridges, and roads that crisscross this great nation of America" They are in such need of attention that, during the long national nightmare that was our recent election (the most seemingly divided this country has been since Reconstruction), out of all the things that our two presidential candidates butted heads over?Russian operatives and tax returns, accusations of terrible misdeeds, and everything else?just about the only thing that they agreed on was the state of our nation’s infrastructure.
“We are going to rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals,” said Trump during his victory speech. “We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none.” During the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton pledged $275 billion to resurrecting our nation’s roadway infrastructure. Not to be outdone, now-President Trump pledged a full $1 trillion. He won the election. Now, where is that money going to go" It?ll go to our overall infrastructure, our freeways, our aging bridges, and even our railways and water pipelines, a spending expenditure that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on.
Here?s why: Americans are driving more than ever. Buoyed by cheap gasoline and a resurgent economy, we shouldn?t be surprised that we’ve collectively driven 3.17 trillion miles in 2016?up from 2015?s total of 3.06 trillion miles. In fact, Americans have been ...