Reply #32: Those who claim that transit is too costly to build fail to see the far more expensive.. [View All]

maintenance of our car/highway infrastructure. Our current road-only infrastructure is unsustainable.

77000 structurally deficient bridges across America for decades. We can't even afford to fix what's broken. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act did provide funding to start replacing some of these bridges. At least that's a start.

Mostly opposed by car-addicted Rethugs, of course.

(I know you understand this stuff, patrice. Don't want to sound like I'm directing this outrage at you :) )

People that want to cling to cars need to be willing to cough up the money to pay for fixing our roads.

Take a nation with pretty high unemployment, people itching to find work, the need for a whole new transportation infrastructure and the job creation it would bring..

Seems like a no-brainer.

But instead our govt chooses to be warmongers.:grr:

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