And will cost a lot of money to up-grade.
Plus long commutes are not good for people and make for unhealthy cities. Riverside, Atlanta, L.A., Houston, and D.C. top Forbes’ list.
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August 2nd, 2007 at 8:34 pm
The bridge collapse in Minneapolis is another reminder of this.The deferred maintainance on everything from roads to bridges to underground pipes to airports is going to seriously hurt our competativeness as well as being a public danger. I think the estimates for bridges in Oregon alone is something like $2 billion.
A commentator on the radio this morning said that politics being what they are, nobody gets elected to fix old stuff. People want new stuff. Much of America’s public infrastructure was built in the last century, so it’s just now starting to wear out. What do older countries like Europe that have much older stock do about this?