<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Interesting from WaPo - </div><div class=""><div class="w-100"><h1 class="
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" data-qa="headline" id="main-content"><span data-qa="headline-opinion-text" class="">Infrastructure plan calls for fixing the nation’s existing roads. Some states are still focused on expansion.</span></h1></div><h2 class="gray-dark mb-sm font-light font--subhead null" data-qa="subheadline">Data analysis by The Washington Post shows a fifth of the nation’s major roads were rated in poor condition in 2019</h2><div class=""><div class="flex"><div class="byline-wrapper items-center"><div class="mb-xs items-center flex" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="author"><span data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="author" class=""><div class="dib items-center" data-qa="author-byline" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="authors"><span class="" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="authors"><div class="font-xxxs dib font-xxs-ns" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="namewithoptionallink"><span class="gray-darkest" data-qa="attribution-text" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="namewithoptionallink">By </span><div class="dib" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="tooltip"><div aria-controls="author-tooltip" aria-owns="author-tooltip" class="" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="tooltip"><a data-qa="author-name" class="bc-gray b bt-hover bb gray-darkest" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ian-duncan/">Ian Duncan</a></div></div></div><span class="font-xxxs font-xxs-ns gray-darkest" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="delimiter">,<span data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="space" class=""> </span></span></span></div><div class="dib items-center" data-qa="author-byline" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="authors"><span class="" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="authors"><div class="font-xxxs dib font-xxs-ns" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="namewithoptionallink"><div class="dib" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="tooltip"><div aria-controls="author-tooltip" aria-owns="author-tooltip" class="" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="tooltip"><a data-qa="author-name" class="bc-gray b bt-hover bb gray-darkest" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/michael-laris/">Michael Laris</a></div></div></div><span class="font-xxxs font-xxs-ns gray-darkest" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="delimiter"> and<span data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="space" class=""> </span></span></span></div><div class="dib items-center" data-qa="author-byline" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="authors"><span class="" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="authors"><div class="font-xxxs dib font-xxs-ns" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="namewithoptionallink"><div class="dib" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="tooltip"><div aria-controls="author-tooltip" aria-owns="author-tooltip" class="" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="tooltip"><a data-qa="author-name" class="bc-gray b bt-hover bb gray-darkest" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/kate-rabinowitz/">Kate Rabinowitz</a></div></div></div><span class="font-xxxs font-xxs-ns gray-darkest" data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="delimiter"><span data-sc-v="4.28.0" data-sc-c="space" class=""> </span></span></span></div></span></div><div class="mb-md-ns mb-sm gray-dark font--subhead font-xxs" data-qa="timestamp"><div class=" gray-dark display-date" data-qa="">May 23, 2021 at 7:11 p.m. EDT</div></div></div></div><div class="article-body"><div class="teaser-content"><section class=""><div class=""><div data-qa="drop-cap-letter" class=""><p data-el="text" class="gray-darkest font-copy ma-0 pb-md font--body">For
all the ambition of President Biden’s infrastructure proposal — massive
spending boosts on trains and buses and a push to get Americans into
electric cars — its priority for the nation’s road network is more
basic: Fix them.</p></div></div><div class=""></div><div class=""><div data-qa="drop-cap-letter" class=""><p data-el="text" class="gray-darkest font-copy ma-0 pb-md font--body">The
Federal Highway Administration estimates a $435 billion backlog of
rehabilitation needs, while an analysis of agency data by The Washington
Post shows a fifth of the nation’s major roads, stretching almost
164,000 miles, were rated in poor condition in 2019. That figure has
stayed mostly unchanged for a decade.</p></div></div></section></div><div class="remainder-content"><section class=""><div data-qa="drop-cap-letter" class=""><p data-el="text" class="gray-darkest font-copy ma-0 pb-md font--body">Yet
more than a third of states’ capital spending on roads that year, $19
billion, went toward expanding the road network rather than chipping
away at the backlog.</p></div></section></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/05/23/highway-funding-infrastructure/" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/05/23/highway-funding-infrastructure/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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