Hope and action.(Paving Innovations)

Hope and action

Greg Udelhofen, editor

As President-elect Barack Obama continues to hammer out the details of his economic stimulus plan, his December 5th radio and YouTube broadcast certainly brought hope to the highway and bridge construction market, and more importantly America's unemployed.

Without a substantial infrastructure stimulus plan, "the U.S. highway and bridge construction market is expected to flatten in 2009, as recent increases in federal highway investment will likely be offset by weakened state and local highway budgets," according to a forecast issued by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association's top economist Dr. …