Current transportation system investment trends could produce dire consequences for the American people and economy, a new report from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) says.
With the FAST Act, the funding authorization for surface transportation spending, expiring on Sept. 30, ASCE released new data on transit systems, roads and bridges that illustrated the cumulative investment gap between what we’re currently spending on those transportation systems, and what we need to be spending to maintain our surface transportation assets in a state of good repair.