Japan's population declines for first time since 1920s

Re:Japan's population declines for first time since 1920s by a3n on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:11PM (#11185313)

> Such as every year you don't need as much infrastructure.

Yeah, but every year you have as much infrastructure as you had last year, except some of it degrades or is abandoned and becomes dangerous.

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Re:Japan's population declines for first time since 1920s by JBReefer on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:14PM (#11185326)

So then you do what many cities around the world have done, and tear out highways to lower opex and create a more pleasant place to live.

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Re:Japan's population declines for first time since 1920s by dragonwriter on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:20PM (#11185353)

> So then you do what many cities around the world have done, and tear out highways to lower opex and create a more pleasant place to live.

Yes, you can do that: that's a capital cost of maintaining quality of life under declining population. I'm not sure how a choice between continued declining quality of life or incurring a significant capital cost is a "benefit", however.

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