Enough With Half Measures: A Call for Radical Change to Accelerate Transportation Infrastructure

Transportation infrastructure in America is more expensive, and takes dramatically longer to build, than in just about any other place in the world. And despite major improvements in technology, construction is also much more time-consuming than it used to be in the United States.

In this article for The National Law Journal, Sidley partner Justin Savage and counsel Adam Raviv (co-leaders of the Automotive and Mobility sector practice) discuss the limitations to transportation infrastructure, including onerous environmental reviews, high labor costs, difficult contracting processes, and lack of intergovernmental coordination.