Bad grades on an infrastructure report card are disturbing. Having the United States called “second rate” in terms of infrastructure is, or should be, downright alarming.
That very phrase appears in connection with a new infrastructure survey released in October by CG/LA Infrastructure, based in Washington, D.C. The Country Infrastructure Capacity (CIC) Survey scores countries’ capacity to develop infrastructure projects, ranking them from 1 to 10 on eight areas that are basic to project development.
“Overall,” said a CG/LA press release on the results, “the scores suggest that the U.S. is falling into second-rate status in the infrastructure arena, becoming a country
