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Infrastructure Spending, Reconsidered

Published: Oct. 16, 2019, noon

Beth Osborne, director of Transportation for America, joins\xa0City Journal\xa0contributing editor\xa0Nicole Gelinas\xa0to discuss the state of U.S. infrastructure and how federal spending could be used more effectively to improve safety and reduce fiscal waste.

The federal government spends between $40 billion and $60 billion on transportation infrastructure annually. In recent years, congressional leaders and the White House have pushed a $2\xa0trillion\xa0plan to upgrade roads, bridges, and more. But such proposals, Osborne\xa0argues, "would throw more money into the same flawed system."