January 06, 2015
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U.S. transportation secretary discusses “infrastructure deficit,” need for long-term innovation and planning.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx warned, in remarks at an MIT forum on Monday, that America’s “infrastructure deficit” was growing and would worsen without further investment and long-term planning for new technologies.

“Whatever the infrastructure deficit is on paper, it’s probably a multiple of that when you take into account the projects that are not being planned right now because of uncertainty about funding and other aspects of our transportation system,” Foxx told a capacity audience in MIT’s Wong Auditorium.

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