The good news
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Item:In 2009, urban commuters lost five fewer hours in congestion than they did in 2006. Clogged roads last year caused the average urban commuter nationally to lose 34 hours, costing the driver $808, the report said.And therein lies the bad news.
"There might be a temptation to say we solved the problem, that congestion has gone away," [Texas Transportation Institute research engineer Tim] Lomax said. "As soon as the economy starts growing, cities will have a difficult time adding transportation services to keep up with the economy."
What to do? What to do? Golly, it's not as if the nation's infrastructure is in the crapper, and millions of people are looking for work.
What to do? What to do?
posted by monocle at 1/20/2011 07:29:00 AM
2 Comments:
don't be a socialist, geez! I'm sure the private sector will step up to fix public issues out of the goodness of their own hearts. and if they want to get paid a little bit, too bad because the "owner" of these problems is the gov't but we can't have the gov't spending money on anything.
Thanks. I needed that.
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