Voltage blog entries tagged with: highways

 Good article from the Center for Public Integrity on the state of federal transportation policy, seen through the lens of the various groups that are lobbying for a new transportation spending bill. Sometimes this comes down to a public transit vs. highways debate, but constructing one or the other is not that different (in most ways), so it’s hard to see what the problem is for many construction firms. Of course there are specialties to each mode, but the bulk of the work is still in basic civil and mechanical disciplines, pouring concrete and erecting structures. If we build less of one and more of the other, we’ll probably still end up spending the same amount of money. I suppose a perceived threat to one's business is still a threat, even if that perception is misguided.