[roadcat]

People were elected to state and local offices to oversee infrastructure and make sure it is maintained. People were hired to staff jobs maintaining infrastructure and make sure it is maintained. There are a lot of tax increases and bond issues voted in every election to get infrastructure fixed because of being poorly maintained, but this keeps getting repeated.

I think lots of people aren't doing their jobs and need to be fired or replaced! Taxpayers are continually being suckered into tax increases that are wasted.

[Alberta's Child]

Here's the brutal truth:

We have second-rate infrastructure across much of the country simply because we consider other things to be much more important priorities. Check out your state budget and notice how little money is spent in the Department of Transportation compared to education, welfare, etc.

[blueplum]

the problem is, all those people hired to do this and that. Those people expecting fat state/county salaries, vacation days, golden perks and pensions. Others relying as sub-contractors and consultants on the billing costs of this and that. And that is where the money goes instead of building and maintaining the actual work they were hired for. Which all goes back to public employee unionization (fire and police exempted) which are a conflict of interest.