http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/02/letters-america-should-get-back-to-basics-on-infrastructure-.html
...Americans need to feel their government is on top of things, not just scrambling when a levee crumbles in New Orleans or a bridge collapses in Minneapolis. While 94% of Americans support greater infrastructure spending, according to a 2009 poll commissioned by Building America's Future, a bipartisan coalition of elected officials, more than half cite the "accountability" or "transparency" of these projects as being most important, ahead of "measurable results." In other words, it is the process and openness with which we rebuild our roads, bridges and transit systems that matter, not so much the finished product.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
by Laura Braden