It’s the Perfect Time to Fix Our Roads and Bridges
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March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Roads, bridges and otherinfrastructure in the U.S. are steadily growing older andweaker. Given low interest rates and elevated unemployment, thisis an ideal moment to invest in fixing them.
Our structures are aging as fast as we are. From 2000 to2010, the median human age in the U.S. rose by almost two years,from 35.3 to 37.2, and the average age of nonresidentialcorporate fixed assets increased by about the same amount. Fixedassets as a whole aged from an average of 20.7 years to 22.1.