> Cities should not be so brittle that having two lanes on a single road go down for a cut would make a dent. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell the way democ

> Cities should not be so brittle that having two lanes on a single road go down for a cut would make a dent. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell the way democracies fund major construction projects is to first wait until the existing infrastructure becomes completely unbearably overloaded, and only then to kick off a process that will solve the problem in 10 years time.