Recently you may have seen that the American Society of Civil Engineers published their 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, something they publish every 4 years, giving US infrastructure a D+ grade for the second time since 2013. The group estimates the cost for the US to earn a respectable grade will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.5 trillion by 2025.
This is of course a major issue as both state and federal officials have been mostly paying lip-service to concerns over the US’s aging roads, bridges, dams, and electrical grid for the better part of half a century. Even voters have gotten sedentary when it comes time to vote in funding for projects and repairs that pose a real danger to citizens the longer they go unchecked.
But enough of that dreary talk about the old, let’s take a much more positive look at the new, specifically the dreams some people have been discussing about where infrastructure projects might go in the future.