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Measuring up US infrastructure against other countries

  • Written by Hiba Baroud, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University
imageHeavy storms in February caused parts of a California highway to give way.Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo

How does infrastructure in the U.S. compare to that of the rest of the world? It depends on who you ask.

On the last two report cards from the American Society of Civil Engineers, U.S. infrastructure scored a D+. This year’s report urged the...

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