Infographic:Rebuilding America's Transportation System through the American Jobs Act
Posted by Robert Rome on September 22, 2011 at 1:57 PM EDT
America is the country that built the transcontinental railroad and the interstate highway system; the Hoover Dam and Grand Central Station but today, we have roads, bridges, airports and railway lines all across the country that are in need of repair and updating. This afternoon, President Obama was in Cincinnati, Ohio where the Brent Spence Bridge, located on one of the busiest trucking routes in North America, is in such poor condition that it has been labeled functionally obsolete.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/ ... n-jobs-act