New York Times: Risking the Future
From New York Times:
I wonder what it will take to get this country serious about repairing and rebuilding its crumbling and increasingly obsolete infrastructure. The catastrophe in New Orleans didn’t do it. Yes, that was an infrastructure tragedy. As the historian Douglas Brinkley wrote in his remarkable book, “The Great Deluge”: “What people didn’t yet fully comprehend was that the overall disaster, the sinking of New Orleans, was a man-made debacle, resulting from poorly designed levees and floodwalls.” And the spectacular rush-hour collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, which killed 13 people, was not enough to get us serious.
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Association of American Railroads: Rail Intermodal Keeps America Moving, May 2010 Get The Facts
Moving 10% of long-distance trucking by rail would save over a billion gallons of fuel per year.
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