We're really really REALLY REALLY bad at infrastructure, for reasons that experts don't actually 100% understand yet. There's plenty of possible reasons that c

We're really really REALLY REALLY bad at infrastructure, for reasons that experts don't actually 100% understand yet. There's plenty of possible reasons that contribute, but most of them tend to boil down to some feature of our politics (and the process by which infrastructure construction is purchased). Looking at cost per mile of apples-to-apples transit systems is horribly depressing compared to pretty much any other country.