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I am extremely cynical about this after Clinton’s national broadband initiative resulted in telecom companies taking $100 billion and not doing anything. I did

• Drunk_Engineer 5y ago
  You are right to be cynical. I'm looking at the CPUC "Proposed Middle Mile" network that would be funded in California -- and it largely overlaps existing service. The Metropolitan Bay Area would be well-funded with this project, while entire rural areas are not included at all. https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e17e4e1c88b04792ab0a2c50aa1a19a3&extent=-124.9691,35.2796,-116.3064,39.6377 https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e17e4e...
• azth 5y ago
  Would this also extend to the $1.5T (or whatever) spending bill that they're pushing?
  • atonse 5y ago
    Would what extend, my cynicism? I am quite dejected at the United States' ability to do anything that's both difficult and unsexy, at this point. Anything related to boring infrastructure (replacing lead water pipes, bridges, leaking subway systems, etc) just seems untenable. There are escalators in the DC Metro Area that are out of service for months and years while they get replaced. I can't even begin to understand what would cause a 1 year long escalator replacement in this age of unlimited power tools and incredible amounts of supply chain efficiency, when it probably took 2-3 years to build the whole metro station to begin with, in the 70s (including the escalator)
• Guessnotgauss 5y ago
  It was $200 billion