If you’ve attended meetings at which Mayor Jackson is present, or if you’ve read about his comments to candidates during the Presidential election, you know he has an Urban Agenda. Apparently it’s about to be fleshed out. Crain’s Cleveland’s Jay Miller writes about it this week, Apparently studies have concluded that rehabbing the InnerBelt Bridge structure would cost more than building a new one. Mayor Jackson, according to Jay Miller, is asking for $730 million to be used towards infrastructure, with the Bridge being a big part of that. (I am hoping public transportation and passenger rail fits into the plan, but as far as I can tell, there is no pdf of his Federal request as of yet. I’m still looking, however).
What exactly does having an Urban Agenda mean? The Detroit Free Press covered the issue (and featured Mayor Jackson’s ideas) back in September.
Fortunately, U.S. mayors are leading the call for a national urban agenda — a set of policies and investments that, after decades of neglect, will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and make the federal government a real partner in rebuilding cities. The U.S. Conference of Mayors will put an action plan on the next president’s desk within 100 days of taking office.
The Mayor’s initial proposal is pretty well outlined in the Free Press piece.
If you had an infrastructure wish list, what would be on it?
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