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Saturday, 16 May 2009 05:51 |
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If broadband matters - and it does - it's almost criminally negligent to build or rebuild a road without including fiber conduit. Including conduit adds less than 1% to the road cost, the New America Foundation calculates in an important paper, http://bit.ly/googoo1. Silicon Valley's Congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, has now proposed a "simple, common sense proposal." John Eggerton expects support for this or similar from Waxman, Boucher, Markey, Klobuchar, and Warner. The proposal is so sensible that no one has publicly opposed the bill. If the sponsors are serious, this can and should be included in one of several highway and stimulus bills likely to become law in the next few months. The bill is short and simple, directing the Secretary of Transportation to require States to install broadband conduit as part of any covered highway construction project, according to " industry best practices."
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