Last month, as all eyes were on the economic stimulus package being worked on by Congress and the incoming Obama Administration, Ken Orski published a summary of what the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission (NSTIFC) will offer in its final report to Congress in his Innovation Briefs newsletter. The findings presented by Orski suggest that this commission's report may be even more important to the highway infrastructure debate in America than the report filed last year by its sister commission, which performed an assessment of the country's road and bridge needs. Focused just on financing, the NSTIFC has spent some 20 months investigating and debating funding options for the national highway program. The committee is comprised of a full spectrum of political and industry interests. Its challenge is to find a consensus on how to solve the country's growing problems with inadequate roads and bridges.
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