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Analysis: Is Obama's infrastructure bank for real?
09 September 2010
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US President Barack Obama’s announcement that he plans to create a national infrastructure bank is a mixed blessing. It is good news for US transportation development in general but, in its currently undefined form, it is unclear how it would affect the private infrastructure financing market.
On 6 September, Obama announced his plans to create an independent bank with a $50 billion initial investment that would leverage private, state and local financing to build transportation projects of national and regional significance. He said it would be used to rebuild 240,000km of roads, construct and maintain 6,400km of rail (including high-speed rail), rehabilitate 150 airport runways and be used to finance the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen air traffic control system. What he did not say was how...
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