““most members of Congress figured that if they voted for everyone else’s dams, someday they would get one too,”
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“The construction-materials companies tend to be very big on the right, and organized labor tends to be very powerful on the left,” (…) these forces form a pro-highway juggernaut
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What has been missing is an alliance between environmentalists and fiscal conservatives like the one that restrained Big Dam in the 1980s.”
https://slate.com/business/2024/08/construction-traffic-cars-driving-transportation-highway.html #vot24 #votation #chvote