From intelligent transportation systems to smart bridges, technology that could make infrastructure safer and more efficient is ready just in time for a flood of government spending. BusinessWeek
No, we just need infrastructure. But infrastructure really isn't the issue, it's the abuse of infrastructure.
Everyone it seems is trying to put a chip, wire or diode in everything. Our infrastructure is failing for two reasons, 1)"inappropriate use" and 2)"lack of maintenance."
While a quick techno fix can solve the latter, the former is the bigger issue. The reason we have a lack of maintenance on most of the infrastructure in the U.S. is that there's never any money ever appropriated to it and that no one wants to pay taxes to fix anything. Even with sensors, some planner or other bureaucrat will slap a report down on someone's desk that will be filed and kept for a decade before the money becomes available to fix it.
The bigger issue relates to sprawl and suburbanism putting undue pressure on whatever remaining physical infrastructure is left. I am frankly sick and tired of people who live in Pennsylvania or Upstate New York and commute to New York City.
Seriously? This suburban nightmare has to end. Otherwise, without density and appropriate planning, we'll just pay more and more for less and less. Personal tastes are dictating too much these days and the government is far to flexible in this regard.
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No, we just need infrastructure. But infrastructure really isn't the issue, it's the abuse of infrastructure.
Everyone it seems is trying to put a chip, wire or diode in everything. Our infrastructure is failing for two reasons, 1)"inappropriate use" and 2)"lack of maintenance."
While a quick techno fix can solve the latter, the former is the bigger issue. The reason we have a lack of maintenance on most of the infrastructure in the U.S. is that there's never any money ever appropriated to it and that no one wants to pay taxes to fix anything. Even with sensors, some planner or other bureaucrat will slap a report down on someone's desk that will be filed and kept for a decade before the money becomes available to fix it.
The bigger issue relates to sprawl and suburbanism putting undue pressure on whatever remaining physical infrastructure is left. I am frankly sick and tired of people who live in Pennsylvania or Upstate New York and commute to New York City.
Seriously? This suburban nightmare has to end. Otherwise, without density and appropriate planning, we'll just pay more and more for less and less. Personal tastes are dictating too much these days and the government is far to flexible in this regard.
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