Failure to Act: America's Infrastructure Problem

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/20/failure-to-act-like-professionals

by JamilD • 9 years ago

33 5 9 years ago

It seems like putting a halt on new infrastructure for certain period would encourage higher density development along existing infrastructure.

It also seems like the kind of thing that is unlikely to happen.

throwaway2048• 9 years ago

This is an awful idea that has been tried before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_disinvestment#Planne...

thinkmilitant2• 9 years ago

To be clear, I wasn't talking about not maintaining existing infrastructure which seems to be what the wiki entry you linked is about. I was talking about a freeze in new infrastructure specifically to allow for existing infrastructure to be better maintained and better utilized.

valuearb• 9 years ago

Toll roads, toll bridges. Return 100% of infrastructure obligations to the states and give them the gas tax money, no need to bring it to Washington so it can be skimmed for pork projects.

orbifold• 9 years ago

Except it is of national interest to have a working highway system and for all the states to have a roughly similar economic outlook. "Pork projects" are a good surplus recycling mechanism.

Failure to Act: America's Infrastructure Problem

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