Rethinking America's Highways: A 21stCentury Vision for Better Infrastructure,New

Rethinking America's Highways: A 21stCentury Vision for Better Infrastructure,New

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Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides its highways. Our twentiethcentury model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, shortchanging maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits.In Rethinking Americas Highways, Poole examines how our current model of stateowned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilitieslike electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefullyreasoned and welldocumented case for a new approach to highways that is sure to inform future decisions and policies for U.S. infrastructure.

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