Report: America's Rural Roads are Dangerous
New report shows America's rural roads have significant deficiencies and high fatality rates.
The chief executive officer of AGC of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, released the following statement in response to a report on the condition of the nation's rural roads released by national transportation research group TRIP yesterday.
The report found that the rural road fatality rate is three times higher than all other roads, while 15% of rural roads are in poor shape and 22% of rural bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete:
"As this report makes clear, Washington's failure to adequately fund repairs to our aging network of roads and bridges is having an even worse impact on our rural roads than the rest of our transportation system. And while these rural roads may not be the ones most commuters use on a daily basis, they play a vital role in assuring the movement of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of agricultural, energy and manufacturing products every day. Neglecting our rural road network needlessly risks lives and forces shipping delays that inflate the cost of fuel, groceries and countless other essential consumer products."
Click here to read the entire AGC release.
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