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Saturday, April 07, 2018

Innovative Infrastructure? Don't Sell the Trump Plan Short.

In its call for 'transformative' projects, it has some ideas that are worth paying attention to.
There is plenty to debate about the Trump administration's $1.5 trillion, 10-year infrastructure plan. What form it might take when -- and if -- it emerges from Congress is anyone's guess. But one of the more forward-leading aspects of the White House proposal, the Transformative Projects Program (TPP), deserves special attention. That's because TPP has the potential to foster stronger financial cooperation between the private and public sectors, create processing efficiencies, and increase innovation for service-related infrastructural projects.

The White House plan would allocate $20 billion under TPP to what it describes as "bold, innovative, and transformative infrastructure projects" that pose "significantly more risk than standard infrastructure projects, but offer a much larger reward profile."

In primarily targeting the transportation, water, energy, space and broadband sectors, the Trump plan says the projects must be "commercially viable" while also "significantly improving performance, from the perspective of availability, safety, reliability, frequency, and service speed" and "substantially reducing user costs for services."

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2 comments:

Steve said...

I am so happy I voted for Trump and wish him Godspeed. I do fear for his life, though, because he wants the USA to be so great again. May tour days for the next 7 + years be safe and wonderfully productive. We love you as much as you love us, and we know how much that is from your campaign. Thank you for that.

Anonymous said...

Would you like to know what the downfall of Trump's only term in office will be? It will be the the centrists. The republicans (like Reagan) that could negotiate deals with the support of both parties, will not vote for or support Trump in the next election. His ideas are great but he is not able garner support form the democrats or even most of the republicans. He panders to those with little education that take his sound bites to be gospel. I won't vote for Hillary or Biden and I won't vote for Trump. If I must sit out the next election, so be it.