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Transportation Topics: Infrastructure Permitting Project Delays Driving Up Costs, Experts Say

  • May 19, 2016
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

PPI President Will Marshall was quoted on his thoughts about reforming America’s transportation infrastructure.

Infrastructure projects in the United States are taking up to 10 years to gain regulatory approval, a problem that is too often sending investors to other countries and driving up the costs of projects, several transportation experts said

An “accumulation of laws and regulations,” largely designed to protect the environment via environmental impact reviews, is bogging down approval of badly needed transportation projects and instead causing environmental damage, Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, said at a May 19 Infrastructure Week event here.”

Read the article in its entirety at Transportation Topics.

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