EP 23 IS AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE CRUMBLING?

During the 2016 campaign, then candidate, Donald Trump, made a clear and convincing case that our nation’s infrastructure was crumbling.  From his vantage point in New York City, he saw a Penn Station terminal at its breaking point, a LaGuardia Airport which looks ‘third world’ and highways that defy conventional movement, strewn with potholes and the signs of stress and overcapacity everywhere.  Is this the case throughout the nation?  To find out, we turn to Thomas W. Smith III, executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers.  His organization does a report card annually on the nation’s roads, bridges, water systems, rail, waste treatment and more. You may be shocked by what you hear.

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