Three steps for coping with your infrastructure problem

Admitting you have a problem is often the first step in fixing the problem. Not so for America’s infrastructure.

Landfills and email inboxes are clogged with reports documenting the need to reinvest in existing infrastructure and the need to build new. Public figures from Donald Trump to Elizabeth Warren recognize the importance of infrastructure investment.

But despite important progress in framing infrastructure as a key economic driver, we still have a long way to go to correct a half-century of bad habits and underinvestment and make the delivery, design, and financing of infrastructure the norm rather than the exception.

Three important changes need to occur in order to correct these bad habits.

Robert Puentes

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Montana Economic Developers Association talks about infrastructure http://www.matr.net/article-65926.html

2014 Report Card for Montana’s Infrastructure http://www.matr.net/article-64982.html