"why is American infrastructure so bad?" has been a topic I am curious about. The above article does not answer the question. I'd prefer not to care about Amer

"why is American infrastructure so bad?" has been a topic I am curious about. The above article does not answer the question. I'd prefer not to care about American infrastructure costs. Unfortunately, I occasionally have to leave my house, and the consequences of bad infrastructure stare me in the face: people living in their cars, traffic jams. The best attempt to actually answer the question I've seen has been "Pedestrian Observations" blog. Their take on the same GAO report is: [New Report on Construction Costs Misses the Mark](https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/22/new-report-on-construction-costs-misses-the-mark/ https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/22/new-report-on-...) "The GAO report is out now, and unfortunately it is a total miss, for essentially the same reason the RPA’s report was a miss: it did not go outside the American (and to some extent rest-of-Anglosphere) comfort zone"