For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Construction Law Musings, we welcome a good friend, Andrew McRoberts. Andrew is an attorney at SandsAnderson PC. He focuses his work on land use and zoning, subdivision, real estate, tax assessment, special service districts, and other specialized advice and litigation for local governments in Virginia as well as for private clients needing a lawyer with local government experience and insight. Andrew has built expertise in local government law his entire legal career. He is a popular speaker, and authored amicus briefs to the Virginia Supreme Court on behalf of the Local Government Attorneys of Virginia, Virginia Association of Counties and Virginia Municipal League. Andrew is the managing editor and chief author of the Virginia Locality Law Blog on local government issues and legal information in Virginia. You can follow Andrew on Twitter at @AndrewMcRoberts and @VaLocalityLaw. In 2010, he was selected as a “Leader in the Law” by the Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly.
In the “Best Practices Construction Law” Blog, I read that the U.S. Department of Treasury recently released a study supporting significant new investment in public infrastructure, entitled, “An Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment.”
Reportedly, the Obama administration has been seeking as much as $50 billion in new money to invest in highways, bridges, rail and public transit as part of a new stimulus.
This federal study shines a light on the real costs of doing nothing. There is a cost to future economic development of a failure to invest in transportation.
Here are some of the parts of the study I found most interesting.
