The breakdown of the levees in New Orleans and the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis are well known, but America’s infrastructure problems do not end in Louisiana and Minnesota. Blueprint America -- with the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer -- and Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez travel to each region of the country for a five part series focusing not only on the neglect and underfunding of the country's decaying infrastructure, but also on solutions for and new thinking about these pervasive problems.
Bridges & Roads
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER :: October 15th, 2008
America in Gridlock: Overview
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer :: October 15th, 2008
America in Gridlock: Video: The Price of Decay
In Pennsylvania, there are nearly 6,000 bridges in disrepair – the most in the nation. According to the Federal Highway Administration, 39 percent of bridges in the state are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. In the first segment of a five part series on infrastructure in the U.S., NewsHour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez reports with Blueprint America on Pennsylvania's aging bridges.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER :: October 14th, 2008
America in Gridlock: Video: A Two-way Street
The NewsHour’s Ray Suarez talks with Chris Edwards, the director of fiscal policy at the CATO Institute, and Michael Gallis, an urban development consultant, on the future of America’s infrastructure.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER :: October 14th, 2008
America in Gridlock: Web Video: The Infrastructure Governor
Gov. Ed Rendell (D., PA) is an advocate for reforming infrastructure policy and practice in both his state and throughout the rest of America. In Pennsylvania, Gov. Rendell has proposed varying measures to improve the state’s infrastructure, which rates particularly poor in road and bridge quality, from tolling to privatizing public roads.
NOW ON PBS :: October 10th, 2008
Driven to Despair: Timeline: Los Angeles Transit
A history of transit in the Los Angeles area as the city modernized at the turn of the 20th Century through today.




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