Welcome to our annual analysis of how the nation supports its infrastructure, as reflected by your 2007 budget expectations. Thank you to those of you who took the time to complete the forecast survey we conducted in November; see pages 23-27 for results. One-third of you are working with the same figures you were able to beg or borrow for 2006. ("Do more with less?" one respondent chided us. "C'mon-we're doing everything with nothing!") Subtract higher-than-average asphalt prices, add equipment-replacement costs, and we have the recipe for continuing infrastructure degradation despite your best efforts.
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