Strong Towns | We have no money to maintain bridges @strongtowns | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
American bridges are falling apart, and there’s no plan to fix them. The Growth Ponzi Scheme has put our cities on a path of quantity over quality. We build a lot of stuff, all of it to a finished state. That stuff then sits and rots—perhaps with some nominal maintenance from time to time—until it falls apart, at which point we put together a huge project to replace it with something new built to a finished state. How can our cities afford new infrasructure when they can’t afford to properly maintain what we already have? We need our cities to become more interested in maintaining and effectively managing our aging infrastructure, before it’s too late.
American bridges are falling apart, and there’s no plan to fix them. The Growth Ponzi Scheme has put our cities on a path of quantity over quality. We build a lot of stuff, all of it to a finished state. That stuff then sits and rots—perhaps with some nominal maintenance from time to time—until it falls apart, at which point we put together a huge project to replace it with something new built to a finished state. How can our cities afford new infrasructure when they can’t afford to properly maintain what we already have? We need our cities to become more interested in maintaining and effectively managing our aging infrastructure, before it’s too late.
