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WJ Editorial: Waterway Infrastructure And Vision
| 题名： | WJ Editorial: Waterway Infrastructure And Vision |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | In 1808, Thomas Jefferson's secretary of the treasury, Swiss-born Albert Gallatin, laid out an ambitious plan to the U.S. Senate for U.S. transportation improvements that astonished contemporaries-what we would today call a comprehensive infrastructure package. It called for a total of $20 million (a huge sum at the time) to be laid out over a period of 10 years to build national roads, along with a series of canals connecting New York City with South Carolina. The plan didn't pass, and even President Jefferson expressed doubts about it. But many of its recommendations eventually came to pass. Congress finally authorized the creation of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in 1919, and the entire waterway was completed in 1940. It extends 1,100 miles from Norfolk, Va., to Key West, Fla. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 12 |
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