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No, it's obviously wrong. 7 billion is spending the entire city budget on just roads for 12 years. Stretching that to a 40 year timeline means that Lafayette w
by treis 6y ago
No, it's obviously wrong. 7 billion is spending the entire city budget on just roads for 12 years. Stretching that to a 40 year timeline means that Lafayette would have had to spend ~25% of their budget on building roads alone for your figure to be accurate. They didn't so your number is wrong.
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- vannevar 6y agoYou're assuming that the city had to pay for the roads entirely themselves, which of course they didn't. My intent was not to explain how Lafayette paid for their roads, it was only to say that the $32B replacement figure was plausible.