The President: My fellow Americans, we are the
nation that built the Golden Gate bridge in four
years and the Hoover dam in five.
Now it takes us much as a decade just to plan a
major permit or a major infrastructure or anything
even remotely major in our country.
And that's ridiculous.
And it's going to change.
This week I laid out a bold and exciting new
vision for the infrastructure in America
that will make our country faster safer and
wealthier.
Frankly it will make our country greater.
For too long America has spent trillions and
trillions of dollars building up other
countries while our own country decade and our own
people suffered.
Our highways and railways and airports and seaports
have all been neglected and its holding our
economy back but now our economy is starting to
roar.
and it's time to rebuild our great nation.
and we have to think big, and think big again.
my new vision for American infrastructure will
generate one trillion dollars in infrastructure
investment were going to give states and localities
more power to decide what projects get built and how
they're funded.
And were going to get government out of the way
by massively cutting the federal approval time for
inductura projects of major nature so that
infrastructure can build again.
We will also revolutionize air travel in America at a
time when every passenger has GPS technology in
their pockets, air traffic controllers rely on
technology so outdated it's no longer
manufactured.
Our controllers do a great job with the technology
they have but all the flight delays and
inefficiencies still cost our economy 25 billion
dollars every single year were proposing moving our
air traffic control system to a new self-finance
nonprofit organization.
It won't need any tax payer money and the FAA
will still be fully in charge of safety many
other countries have done this and the results have
been absolutely incredible.
Next were going to revitalize the 12 thousand
miles of inland waterways the life blood of the
American heartland our agriculture, steel, and
energy produces depend on these critical charters
and a single tow boat can haul the same load as
1,000 eighteen-wheelers, were going to fix our 50
year old system of locks and dams so American
producers can get their products to market
quickly, reliably and efficiently in the Coming
weeks and months will outline additional
projects to rebuilt American infrastructure
all of which can be achieved through my vision
for a new partnership between Washington,
states, and the private sector.
With the talent skill and drive of the American
people there is no doubt to the beautiful future we
can create together.
all it takes is a bold and daring vision and the will
to make it real America is going to build again under
budget and ahead of schedule thank you, god
bless you, and god bless of America.