The costs to replace everything we have and force people to change behaviors are basically so large as to be impossible to calculate, or frankly pay for. This i

The costs to replace everything we have and force people to change behaviors are basically so large as to be impossible to calculate, or frankly pay for. This isn't software where you can engineer your way out of technical debt, the debt is baked into concrete, steel and psychological behaviors. Of those, I'd note the hardest one to change is that last one, it prevents the trillions from being spent to change the first two. I'd also like to note, it's not a one time charge. It's 1.75b dollars a year ongoing in perpetuity, that's what bothers me, are there not other things we could spend 1.75b dollars a year on, that are more worthy? How many busses could 1.75b dollars a year buy? In the end, our focus on what people perceive as perfection in urban development, gets in the way of making what we have more sustainable and incrementally better, which costs less, and sees much more immediate results.