Local Engineers Grade TN’s Ageing Infrastructure

Local Engineers Grade TN’s Ageing Infrastructure

Tennessee won’t be calling home to mom about its infrastructure report card this year.

The Volunteer State’s infrastructure received a C average from the American Society of Civil Engineers’s Tennessee division, according to a new report released Tuesday.

One bright spot for Tennesseans is that the nation as a whole is performing worse, as it received a D+ average in the ASCE’s 2013 nationwide report, which is the most recent year available for a nationwide average.

It was the Nashville area’s current hot topic, transit, that scored one of the state’s lowest grades — D+.

The report said there were some positive development’s in the state’s transit program before acknowledging trouble spots, such as the failure of the Nashville Amp, a proposed bus rapid-transit system that never got off the ground.

The report recommended solutions on how to improve Tennessee’s transit grade, such as (continue reading at Nashville Business Journal)

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