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We shouldn't wait until after a piece of infrastructure collapses to fix the cracks in the foundation. The public capital stock has been allowed to age much mo
by almond 16y ago
We shouldn't wait until after a piece of infrastructure collapses to fix the cracks in the foundation. The public capital stock has been allowed to age much more than the residential and private stock:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/12/age_americas_infrastructure http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/12/age_americas...
- yummyfajitas 16y agoMeasuring age is not necessarily relevant - if a bridge has a lifetime of 50 years, but the average age is 23 years (up from 16), we have a long way to go before it becomes a problem. Your chart is interesting, but hardly conclusive.