All Infrastructure Is Not Created Equal

For almost forty years, my father was the city administrator for a small town in Kentucky. And in every one of those years, decisions had to be made over one of the city's most expensive activities -- repaving streets. Depending on the weather, the level of traffic, and the structure of the underlying roadbed, some streets started to crumble in as few as five or six years. Others could make it two or three decades with only a little patching to see them ... Full Story »

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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - Dec. 22, 2008

Some interesting ideas are presented here about what infrastructure should be built or rebuilt. The article (I think) needs more sourcing (expert opinions) to make it more credible.

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Leo Romero
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by Leo Romero - Dec. 21, 2008
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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Dec. 21, 2008

Your grandfather sounds like he had a good head on his shoulders. To bad he was an orphan.

I live in the deep south south. Believe me when I tell you we still have plenty of dirt roads and need plenty of money and jobs to pave them. Go around this great country and you'll see plenty of broken down bridges that need fixing.Pave baby Pave.

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