The Regional Transportation District (RTD) welcomed the Low and Slow Across America’s Infrastructure Tour on June 2. Award-winning author and freelance journalist Dan McNichol, Ph.D., and senior transportation editor Aileen Cho from ENR magazine are taking the tour to raise public awareness of the need to invest in the crumbling state of America’s infrastructure. The American Public Works Association (APWA) is the top sponsor of ENR’s tour.
The crew is making the trip in McNichol’s 1949 Hudson Commodore 8 – named Mrs. Martin – and showcasing his day-to-day struggle to maintain the mechanical condition of the rusty, aged Hudson during the trip as a symbol of the struggle across America in maintaining our country’s infrastructure. Along the way, the two journalists are doing interviews, shooting video, snapping pictures, blogging and writing articles that will appear in ENR and the APWA Reporter magazines over the next year.
The crew is visiting projects of RTD’s FasTracks transit expansion program to show an example of the kind of investment that is needed across the country.
The tour began May 11 in Boston with various planned stops from the east coast to the west coast. While on tour, McNichol and Cho are interviewing transportation and public works officials about how to keep our aging roads, mass transit systems, airports, and water systems intact, prudently upgraded or wisely replaced, in an age when more federal funding is desperately needed.
