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Keep on Trucking?: Video: Keep on Trucking?

NOW on PBS :: August 31st, 2009
Keep on Trucking?: Video: Keep on Trucking?

Would you pay more in taxes to fix roads and rail? Blueprint America correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.

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Keep on Trucking?: Overview

NOW on PBS :: August 26th, 2009
Keep on Trucking?: Overview

Blueprint America -- with NOW on PBS -- in a report with correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at the massive amount of freight moved throughout the country -- by trucks and by trains. But the aging infrastructure they run on needs more investment. Still, in these economic times money is hard to come by -- if the economy is to improve, though, the freight system that moves the country's goods needs to keep moving.

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Choke Point: Analysis: Getting to the Other Side of the Tracks

THE NEWSHOUR with JIM LEHRER :: June 11th, 2009
Choke Point: Analysis: Getting to the Other Side of the Tracks

Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr on the impact of freight moving through communities.

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