Beast ass article in the NYT today about America's systematic infrastructure problems. It doesn't need to mention this disaster to show how fucked up things are. The key problem seems to stem from the fact that our dollars are allocated without any real data driven analysis.
"Right now, federal funds typically aren’t tied to tangible goals, like how much a new road would reduce traffic or how much a new train line would reduce carbon emissions and oil imports. Much of the time, the government doesn’t even collect this sort of information."
Hopefully the incoming administration can work to resolve this problem and actually require legit cost benefit analysis before writing huge checks. As we have seen, our current system is clearly spending money in inefficient ways (as governments are prone to do).
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