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I wonder if maintenance schedule and state information should be gathered in a public database. I know US has thousands of entities of infrastructure but some m
by ehnto 5y ago
I wonder if maintenance schedule and state information should be gathered in a public database. I know US has thousands of entities of infrastructure but some manpower and some tablets is all you would need.
- Someone 5y agoYou mean like the National Bridge Inventory (https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi.cfm https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi.cfm)?
- engineer_22 5y agoMoney is the limiting factor. Tax dollars are already stretched thin. In many areas of the country infrastructure maintenance is at unsustainable levels with no easy solution. You cant squeeze blood from a stone.
- mrguyorama 5y agoExcept the stone in this case is absolutely dripping with blood being slurped up by fat scavengers and building aircraft carriers (because we NEED 12 of them of course) while some asshole wags their finger at us and tells us this pinch of sand is all we can afford.
- engineer_22 5y agoI take your point in good spirit, but there may be an argument to be made that military power is a net asset. But it's beside the point of my original comment. Local infrastructure budgets are not equipped to keep up with the demands.