The American Society of Civil Engineers has issued its third report card on the state of the nation’s infrastructure. The “poor” status reported in 2001 and 2005 is unchanged, while the five-year, $2.2-trillion investment needed to correct it has increased by half a trillion dollars since 2005.
The ASCE released its 2009 Report Card for Infrastructure two months earlier than planned, hoping to influence the national discussion over infrastructure funding now taking place in Washington, D.C., officials from the group said. The report card, which gives the nation’s infrastructure an overall grade of “D,” or “Poor,” synopsizes the findings of the detailed, state-by-state report due out March 25.