America's infrastructure is in bad shape, and it impacts different communities in different ways. President Trump is proposing $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending, with $200 billion coming from Congress to fix roads, highways, bridges. and airports, plus another $1.3 trillion in improvements from the private sector.
When it comes to building new projects and fixing ones that are breaking, the president says he wants speed and efficiency, not red tape. Countries like China complete projects at hyper-speed — a recent viral viral video shows 1,500 workers replacing a stretch of train track in just 8.5 hours.
So what do China and the United States actually look like side-by-side when it comes to infrastructure, and what would it actually take to get U.S. infrastructure back on track?
For answers, The Takeaway turns to Jon Hillman, director of the Reconnecting Asia Project with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Otis Rolley, the Regional Director for North America at 100 Resilient Cities with the The Rockefeller Foundation.
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