Go with the flow: Sen. Casey proposes a new approach on locks
and dams  Share with others:  Print Email Read Later  Before
highways existed, Pittsburgh was founded because rivers were the
natural way of transportation through the wilderness. The city
of three rivers still gets it. Today Pittsburgh is the second
largest inland port in the United States, and the rivers remain
a mainstay of the economy.  U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania
gets it, too. On Friday, he was at Station Square championing
the repair of aging locks and dams, without which the barge
traffic cannot flow. This region has 23 locks and dams and they
are among the oldest in the nation. Mr. Casey is proposing a
bill in Congress that would modernize the inland waterways
system, bringing a payoff for Pittsburgh and the nation.  What
is being proposed is not just throwing money at the system,
although greater federal investment is part of it. The measure
-- to be known as the Reinvesting in Vital Economic Rivers and
Waterways Act of 2013, or th