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Comment by jdkee

American infrastructure has been given a D+ by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/

We have been under-funding maintenance for decades and problems, such as this example, will be on the rise given the additional stressors due to climate change.

It is a problem of political will. To quote Vonnegut, "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

parent jdkee 7 years ago

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