Maylinn Rosales, past-president of the Nevada Section, has been working on issues of infrastructure advocacy for her entire professional life. She’s attended the last seven ASCE Legislative Fly-Ins in Washington, D.C. and played a key role in the “2018 Report Card on Nevada’s Infrastructure.”
But this year’s work is different. This year is special.
Rosales, who emigrated from Nicaragua to the United States in 1999, received...
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Marsha Anderson Bomar did. She's in her fourth term on the City Council in Duluth, Georgia, and talks today about how civil engineering and public office intersect (2:05).
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Infrastructure when? Infrastructure now.
ASCE members from all 50 states and Puerto Rico brought their message – and the #InfrastructureNow hashtag – to over 310 Members of Congress Wednesday afternoon, advocating for a variety of infrastructure solutions at the annual Legislative Fly-In.
The key piece of ASCE’s advocacy argument is the Highway Trust Fund. The HTF is the main funding source for federal investment in highway...
Wednesday, ASCE Region 9 issued part of its California Report Card early to promote its grades for surface transportation infrastructure.
The D grade for roads, the C- grade for bridges, and the C- grade for transit, come just weeks before a November ballot proposition that would repeal a law that created funds for transportation system improvements through new fuel taxes and raised vehicle registration fees.
Los Angeles...
Americans seem to understand that our nation has an infrastructure problem, and ASCE’s Infrastructure Report Card and related advocacy efforts are paying off. Not only does there seem to be a greater understanding about the concerning state of our country’s aging infrastructure, but public opinion polling shows that a significant number of Americans – 87 percent in one recent poll – agree the federal...
Time and money are two of the most valuable things in your life.
A lack of investment in our nation’s infrastructure is costing you both.
ASCE’s recently released 2017 Infrastructure Report Card graded the nation’s infrastructure with a cumulative D-plus, the same grade issued in the 2013 Report Card. The poor grades are largely attributed to a lack of infrastructure investment.
The Report Card suggests that to...
The new ASCE Infrastructure Report Card got the conversation started last week.
This week, ASCE members from around the country took that talk straight to Capitol Hill in Washington as participants in the Society’s annual Legislative Fly-In.
“The timing of the Report Card being at the forefront of everybody’s minds definitely helps get a foot in the door, makes the conversation a little bit easier,” said...
ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, released Thursday, offers the nation both bad news and good news.
The bad is the average grade, D-plus, has not changed since the last Report Card four years ago, reflecting a continued dire need of overhaul.
The good news is the Report Card says such an overhaul is still attainable, and offers suggested solutions that can make that overhaul happen.
“There are reasons...
