The Acela is yet another case study in why U.S. infrastructure is so bad.

Despite historically low interest rates, state and local investment in infrastructure is flagging.

But he (like Clinton) would do nothing to address the fact that U.S. infrastructure is too expensive and too shoddily-constructed.

Today’s arguments for infrastructure investments could as easily have been made—and indeed were made—every year since the recession. Why would they be more persuasive now?

There are, in fact, some effective ways to limit the power of public transportation unions.

We don’t spend too little on mass transit. We just spend it in all the wrong places.