Infrastructure | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The problem with our infrastructure comes solely from the inability to raise gas taxes to fund it, which is why most bridges are dangerous. The DC area is now privatizing roads and tolls because of this - although many suspect that when toll roads go unused, the road companies will fail and we will go back to what works. Part of the reluctance was due to the administration's commitment to enacting cap and trade for global warming. When that failed, there was no plan B. Until some of the highly partisan redistricting is overturned in court over the next two years, we will have to deal with the wall against adequate funding of roads in the GOP. Sadly, it is not really the GOP's fault. Its ultimately the voters who want to be under-taxed. We have met the enemy and it is us.
The good news is that because the infrastructure is so old, it can be replaced if we want to go with overhead powered and controlled electric cars - and we can let the car builders and system operators fund the project, even though the government would have done it more cheaply.
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