America’s Infrastructure Gets a D+

March 16, 2017
Garret Murai – California Construction Law Blog

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has issued their 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, which assigns a letter grade to the nation’s infrastructure.

Our country’s grade in 2017? A disappointing D+.

Although, if you’re a glass half full kind of person (bless your soul) at least our grade didn’t fall since the last report card was issued in 2013, when our grade was a D+ as well.

In short, we suck. Although, apparently, we don’t suck evenly across the board.

ASCE has divided its cumulative GPA into grades for specific courses, if you will. Our transit systems received a grade of D-; our airports, dams, drinking water and waste water plants, inland waterways, levees and roads received a grade of D; our power plants, hazardous waste plants, public parks and schools received a grade of D+; our bridges, ports and solid waste plants a grade of C+, and our rail systems received a grade of B.

Mr. Murai may be contacted at gmurai@wendel.com



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