For the record - Jan. 24, 2009
Infrastructure: A Dec. 26 Op-Ed stated that, in 1954, a mile of four-lane interstate highway required “50 tons of concrete and 20 tons of reinforcing steel.” It required 20,000 tons of concrete and 80 tons of steel.
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