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...undergoing a building boom. But this is no typical growth story. When I was here six months ago, bodies jutted from the pancaked floors of collapsed buildings and lined rubble-strewn streets. Tens of thousands of homeless crowded into sports stadiums, and millions more slept in tents. The highway was riven with cracks, and smashed vehicles crowded the shoulders. Grim-faced survivors trudged past on foot. The surface of the Zipingba Reservoir was covered with a brackish film from the tons of boulders and soil loosed into...
...plans for downtown New Haven. Despite the best intentions of these planners, though, the urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop the dramatic decay of cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Why? Largely because of cheap land and interstate highway access to new suburban communities. In other words, non-urban alternatives dictated an urban problem...
Unfortunately, the primary obstacle to fixing our infrastructure is exactly the problem that anyone still reading is facing; infrastructure is profoundly, unequivocally, and utterly unexciting. There are no union-like picketers banding together to rally for the local toll road. There are no passionate highway rights activists waging sit-ins until freeways receive the new lanes they need to survive. There are no “Save the Bridges” campaigns, and no “I Stand with Route 84” bumper stickers. Despite the staggering number of people served by any individual road or bridge (except...
...trillion over a span of five years in order to bring the nation’s infrastructure into a state of good repair. Looking at merely one subcategory of these projects—transportation infrastructure—the Department of Transportation estimates that in order to simply maintain current highway and bridge conditions, it will cost $78.7 billion per year. Unfortunately, in reporting on the current state of US infrastructure, the ASCE gave it a ‘D,’ thereby indicating that simply maintaining it will not be sufficient. DOT estimates assert that the required amount...
...defined by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) as “institutional arrangement in which a private entity assumes some level of risk beyond that traditionally associated with supplying its services to a government agency.” A recent report by the GAO provides examples of PPPs for highway infrastructure in the U.S., and highlights those which involve the management of an existing entity—such as the lease of the Chicago Skyway to a private entity for $1.83 billion or the lease of the Indiana Toll Road for $3.85 billion—as well as those which...