Eventually we're going to hit a point at which personal automobiles simply won't be feasible on a national scale. We're already kinda-sorta hitting that point as bridges begin to collapse and hurricanes knock out causeways and such. We've got something like a trillion dollars in deferred maintenance across the national system and its noticeably coming due.
We're also staring down a population crunch, as the olds retire and young people have fewer and fewer children. So a lot of recreational, suburban, and retirement communities simply aren't going to be viable economic projects in twenty or thirty years.
Things are going to change whether the Bidencrats and Trumpublicans want them to or not.
My answer is the same. We can't and we won't pay for it. People have been saying what you're saying for literally 30 years and the only thing we got was this shitty infrastructure deal that pays for like 12% of maintenance needs. That's all we're gonna get under this intractable neoliberal order and everywhere is gonna rot just like Jackson and Flint.
Eventually we're going to hit a point at which personal automobiles simply won't be feasible on a national scale. We're already kinda-sorta hitting that point as bridges begin to collapse and hurricanes knock out causeways and such. We've got something like a trillion dollars in deferred maintenance across the national system and its noticeably coming due.
We're also staring down a population crunch, as the olds retire and young people have fewer and fewer children. So a lot of recreational, suburban, and retirement communities simply aren't going to be viable economic projects in twenty or thirty years.
Things are going to change whether the Bidencrats and Trumpublicans want them to or not.
My answer is the same. We can't and we won't pay for it. People have been saying what you're saying for literally 30 years and the only thing we got was this shitty infrastructure deal that pays for like 12% of maintenance needs. That's all we're gonna get under this intractable neoliberal order and everywhere is gonna rot just like Jackson and Flint.