Good luck convincing every city in the US to rubber-stamp cutting up cement and closing roads, let alone all the private property owners that infra might have t

Good luck convincing every city in the US to rubber-stamp cutting up cement and closing roads, let alone all the private property owners that infra might have to go through. It’s some of the same reasons that we can’t build public transit. See https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2022/07/how-broadband-infrastructure-gets-built https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-shee... for a quick read summary of the issues. See https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc... for some of the legal chicanery that incumbent monipoly ISPs have put in place. See https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-just-cable-companies-and-blame-local-government-for-dismal-broadband-competition/ https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju... for other local government struggles. See https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywkn4b/study-throwing-taxpayer-money-at-giant-isps-hasnt-fixed-americas-broadband-problem https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywkn4b/study-throwing-taxpay... for some history on how these monopoly ISPs rob taxpayers without actually delivering. The fact that even today in Silicon Valley, the fastest internet I can get at home is through Comcast with a 45mbps upload cap (1200mbps down) is a disgusting failure of every level of government to actually do right by consumers instead of just stuffing our tax dollars into the back pockets of giant companies while our infrastructure rots, and I mean that quite literally looking at the telephone poles down our streets here that still carry the coax used to deliver internet service. There’s no fiber in our suburban neighborhood because many of the residents bought their houses in the 60s and 70s, pay 1/20th or less of the property taxes that new home buyers do because of CA Prop 13 (which is also a big reason California cities always have budget issues — schools here that are surrounded by >$1m houses for miles go underfunded because of Prop 13), and aren’t willing to pay a dime more for anything like internet service because they’re already struggling to make ends meet. They’ve already been priced out of the neighborhood long ago, but we continue to pretend that giving them a $20k/yr tax break on their property tax is making the world better by letting them continue to be in poverty while living in a million-dollar+ property. I feel much less sorry for the wealthy folks who own many Prop 13 tax-advantaged properties here and rent them out at $8k/month in pure profit. I feel the least sorry for large companies like Disney that get CA Prop 13 benefits, but even stuff like 2020 CA Prop 15 fails at the ballots because everyone pearl clutches their sweet sweet tax break, even when we just try to limit it for large companies, because they think they’ll come for them next (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_15 and https://calmatters.org/commentary/2020/08/how-prop-13-gave-californias-richest-corporations-a-multibillion-dollar-tax-break-they-didnt-want/ https://calmatters.org/commentary/2020/08/how-prop-13-gave-c... ) I see our infrastructure problems as just another example of the older generations voting only out of self-interest with no desire to build a better society for their children, NIMBYism, and the ever-reliable culture of profits over people at every level of government. Apply these over decades and you get what we have in this country today. I highly doubt we’re ever going to comprehensively fix all of our infrastructure issues in America.