Three Questions About Nation's Infrastucture

Neal Peirce looks at what the nation can learn from California's response to its infrastructure problems.

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March 23, 2006, 2:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"As American states get ready to spend billions on long-overdue infrastructure improvements, some rough questions pop up... Californians, for example, find it much easier to fund levee repairs than to take obvious steps to limit the splurge of ill-advised residential subdivisions being built on low land, highly susceptible to flooding, close to Northern California's levees...The moral from California: from levees to roads to rails to ports, it's easy to recognize the need for early action, to move on America's massive infrastructure deficit."

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