The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure

Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by andrewla on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:47PM (#14454461)

This is an interesting theory, but any attempt at explaining why the US in particular is bad at large-scale infrastructure also has to explain why other countries are so much better at it.

The litigousness argument seems to be interesting from that perspective, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe that France or Germany are less detail-oriented in their planning, given that the same tools that allow better blueprinting are available everywhere.

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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by graphitezepp on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:20PM (#14455189)

American exceptionalism might have a place in the discussion, as the USA is exceptionally big. Furthermore it is notable that the only countries that are likely to have similar quality infrastructure with lower population density are the Nordic ones.

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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by droidist2 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:01PM (#14455881)

I think even in Sweden, Norway, and Finland the population is concentrated in the warmer south part of the country.

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