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Bob Herbert Asks: What About Infrastructure?
Monday, August 18, 2008
In his New York Times column last Saturday, Bob Herbert spotlighted national infrastructure issues at the US Conference of Mayors meeting and lamented their lack of prominence in the Presidential campaign. He highlighted the opportunity Meridian, MS Mayor John Robert Smith sees in a truly national passenger train network to address our transportation needs (my emphasis on the bolded part):
The mayors talked about clogged highways, the high price of gasoline and an air transportation system that seems to get more pitiful by the day. Mayor John Robert Smith of Meridian, Miss., called on the presidential candidates to take a bold, creative approach to the nation’s transportation needs, including substantial investments in railroad infrastructure.
Mr. Smith believes the nation should devote the same level of commitment to developing a first-rate passenger rail system as was marshaled for the interstate highway system in the Eisenhower era.
He also noted this gem from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg:
At a press conference after the meeting, Mayor Bloomberg said, “We’ve got to make infrastructure investment a national priority,” and he took the federal government to task for “walking away from its responsibility in this area.”
We couldn’t agree more: The federal government needs to wake up. See my guest entry in The Hill‘s Congress Blog that was published yesterday.
—Matthew Melzer
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