10 Dec 2023 5:21 pm
Cherry pick? It's cited by the people you quoted, the ASCE. Did you look at it? I did.Cannonpointer » 10 Dec 2023, 6:19 pm » wrote: ↑ You can cherry pick, but the point was made - crumbling infrastructure, insufficient investment to stem the tide. Your cherry pick notwithstanding, the OUTLOOK at current spending levels is the CERTAINTY of continued and worsening decay.
Our water used to be trustworthy in virtualy every hamlet. I remember as a young man being told that one day we would BUY water at the store in bottles. I laughed, and I asked why we would do that when we have good water at our homes? The fellow told me the oligarchs wanted to sell us water, and their employees were going to degrade our water systems so that they could do it.
I was doubtful - but here we are, stupe.
Bridges are the only category where the grade lowered, and that was c to c-. The five other categories went up. They are drinking water, aviation, inland waterways, energy, and ports.
