{"id":13897,"date":"2013-03-19T14:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:05:15","slug":"new-hampshire-infrastructure-outperforms-other-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2013\/03\/19\/new-hampshire-infrastructure-outperforms-other-states\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Infrastructure Outperforms Other States With C+ Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Society of Civil Engineers gives the United States a D+ grade for infrastructure quality in a four-year report card released today. ASCE also estimates the nation needs $3.6 trillion in investment by 2020 to repair our infrastructure. The country&#8217;s solid waste infrastructure did best with a B- grade; inland waterways and levees came in last, receiving a D- grade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asce.org\/reportcard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the ASCE\u2019s extensive interactive report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ASCE released a report on New Hampshire in 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrastructurereportcard.org\/a\/#p\/state-facts\/new-hampshire\" target=\"_blank\">Based on that report<\/a>, New Hampshire is performing below the rest of the nation when it comes to our bridges; railroads; and solid waste management. The good news is that we\u2019re slightly above the national average on <a href=\"http:\/\/ascenh.org\/uploads\/docs\/2011-ASCE-ReportCard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">all other metrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s overall grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers is C+.<\/p>\n<p>Want details on the state of New Hampshire\u2019s infrastructure?\u00a0Check out our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2013\/03\/12\/5-reasons-n-h-s-roads-are-looking-beat-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">roads series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Society of Civil Engineers gives the United States a D+ grade for infrastructure quality in a four-year report card released today. ASCE also estimates the nation needs $3.6 trillion in investment by 2020 to repair our infrastructure. The country&#8217;s solid waste infrastructure did best with a B- grade; inland waterways and levees came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[542],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13900,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions\/13900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}