{"id":37696,"date":"2014-09-04T20:51:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonda-develop.go-vip.net\/concrete-construction\/article\/an-infrastructure-vacation_o"},"modified":"2014-09-04T20:51:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:51:28","slug":"an-infrastructure-vacation_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonda-develop.go-vip.net\/concrete-construction\/projects\/infrastructure\/an-infrastructure-vacation_o\/","title":{"rendered":"An Infrastructure Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\r \r<\/div>\r<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assuming I can ever afford to retire, I have two travel fantasies. Both rely on infrastructure, and both will be possible, assuming adequate planning on my part, thanks to you.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Hit the road with my dog, a la John Steinbeck in Travels with Charley. This country is so beautiful, and there\u2019s so much to see.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress will still be wasting billions of dollars\u2019 worth of work time arguing over how to fund surface transportation, but roads and bridges will be serviceable. You will have figured out, like you always have, how to keep them in working order. You\u2019ll have done that by persuading local taxpayers, like you always have, that in lieu of help from Washington, they will need to pay for local improvements themselves. They won\u2019t be happy about it, but they\u2019ll vote to raise their property, sales, fuel, and\/or other taxes for the privilege of getting where they\u2019re going faster.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Car manufacturers will have spent roughly the same amount developing technology that will enable my RV to drive itself. I hope I\u2019ll still be able to drive, but it\u2019s good to know that if worse comes to worst, I can give the vehicle my destination and then head to the back for a nap.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. See the nation via its original roads: rivers. The world looks completely different from the water.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/legislation\/wrrda-provides-for-water-sewer-and-waterway-projects_o.aspx?dfpzone=administration.budgets\">As this article explains<\/a>, Washington just overhauled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers processes and procedures via the latest water-resources funding bill. (Congress is supposed to reauthorize the legislation every other year, but \u2026 well, you know how that goes.)<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law gives local authorities more input into federal projects. However, as with the 2012 reauthorization of surface transportation funding legislation, control is being relinquished in tiny increments because (irony of ironies) Washington doesn\u2019t quite trust you\u2019ll spend taxpayer dollars wisely.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m sure that within the next decade or so (probably the same amount of time it will take to pass the next water bill), you\u2019ll have proven yourselves capable of sound fiscal management. So I&#8217;ll be able to navigate a little houseboat around the Great Loop, as long as the Corps updates its maps.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington won\u2019t have its act together, but there will be friendly faces and clean marinas along the way. So on behalf of my future plans\u2014and everyone traveling now\u2014thank you.<\/p>\r<\/div> \r","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming I can ever afford to retire, I have two travel fantasies. 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