Underfunded infrastructure is U.S. mayors’ “most pressing problem,” according to a new survey. But mayors will be getting some significant help from the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act to narrow the funding gap.
Nearly half the officials who responded to the 2015 Menino Survey of Mayors, released on Jan. 20, cited infrastructure as their biggest challenge over the next five years or more—for issues that are primarily state or federal responsibilities. No other topic got more than 20% of the responses to the survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Boston University Initiative on Cities.