Re:California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted
by acomjean on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:23PM
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I was a civil engineer in the late 90s. They've been talking about infrastructure spending running short in the US since then. Nobody listens.
Upkeep is expensive and nobody wants to pay for it..
occasionally a big project gets funded but for the most part it's just highways that get funding.
Re:California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted
by M_Grey on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:29PM
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...And that's partly because highway funding is a leash the federal government keeps on the states. I suppose people need a few huge disasters to appreciate the need for it?
occasionally a big project gets funded but for the most part it's just highways that get funding.