The cost to fix America's crumbling infrastructure? Nearly $2.6 trillion, engineers say

[Mista]

 

[Clutch]

yes our next President will be a wanna be brit , playboy, cricketer turned philanthropist

Much more competent than the demonic senile Biden...

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Well Laguardia should be shut down. It was already shoe-horned into a tiny NYC area before the jet age. Now with jets it is a menace. You can only land jets with full thrust-reversers because the runways are so ridiculously short (nicknamed USS LaGuardia because it is like landing on a carrier)

(not Laguardia but the experience is the same)

 

[Rana4pak]

yes our next President will be a wanna be brit , playboy, cricketer turned philanthropist

No ur president is dementia patien .one day he will forget that he is president,trump is too much better than that dementia

 

[T-SaGe]

If the entire public infrastructure renewing are affordable with just $ 2.6 trillion, it is a much lower problem than I thought. Trump made a noise for nothing.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

If the entire public infrastructure renewing are affordable with just $ 2.6 trillion, it is a much lower problem than I thought. Trump made a noise for nothing.

Alot of it is simply for underused stuff that doesn't pay for itself anymore. Like $1B to upgrade a train line used by less than 1000people/day but had 20,000 back in the 1950's.

That money would be better spent elsewhere instead of propping up something.

 

[StraightEdge]

That won't even be near the mark - the pace at which they building the California HSR tells a very different story. These Americans are lazy and fat, and corporate greed is eating them from inside. They can't even agree on simple things like gun control and health insurance. Nothing will happen in that country - they have like 10-20 huge organisations, and brain drain helps them. A decade from how their demise will be visible for everyone.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

That won't even be near the mark - the pace at which they building the California HSR tells a very different story. These Americans are lazy and fat, and corporate greed is eating them from inside. They can't even agree on simple things like gun control and health insurance. Nothing will happen in that country - they have like 10-20 huge organisations, and brain drain helps them. A decade from how their demise will be visible for everyone.

I think the land cost is most of the problem. 350 miles is a lot of expensive homes to buy. There will be court battles the whole way....like what happened here in the early 1960's causing a re-route of a highway:

Simply too many wealthy/smart/influential people with nice property to battle in court. It was re-routed to an old pre-existing road.

 

[Khanate]

Print another $2.6T and it will devalue the dollar further. This is a huge problem for countries with large US dollar reserves but Biden doesn't see that as his problem.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Why bother? I hear Biden gonna build 10 more aircraft carriers to FIGHTA CHINA. CHINA. CHINA. CHINA.

 

[Mista]

I think the land cost is most of the problem. 350 miles is a lot of expensive homes to buy. there will be court battles the whole way....like what happened here in the 1960's causing a re-route of a highway:

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Another impediment would be the high labor cost/lack of skilled labor willing to do the dirty jobs, which is a 'problem' for many developed countries.

Singapore resorted to importing a large number of foreign workers from South Asia to build our infrastructure. Without them, we wouldn't be able to build our homes and infrastructure as cheap and fast as it would.

Even in China, the younger and more educated urban Chinese aren't willing do those jobs. They would rather do delivery if they can't find an office job. However, they still have a large number of available rural workers to work on their infrastructure, so they can continue binge building. They will probably face the same 'problem' in another 20 years as their young continue to get more educated and their older rural workers start to retire.

 

[Mista]

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Another impediment would be the high labor cost/lack of skilled labor willing to do the dirty jobs, which is a 'problem' for many developed countries.

LOL! @Gomig-21 and I were just talking about this.

 

[dbc]

Much more competent than the demonic senile Biden...

nope a comatose Biden is better than any leader Pakistan has had..

 

[letsrock]

China is justifiably proud of its infra achievements but america really does not have infra problem. The only things i can think off is high cost of broadband and cellular but again this is a problem of policy. When it comes to roads, transport, electricity, gas, air conditioning - its all excellent and affordable - cars (large and uxurious) are very cheap especially in used markets. There are 5000 airports in america as opposed to few hundreds in china. China still struggle to supply piped heating to their houses even in beijing suburbs. And also china simply has a lot many more people than usa.