Streetcar Stimuli

Remember how the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis proved we had to invest in infrastructure? And then it turned out that the bridge collapsed because of a design flaw, not a lack of maintenance?

I guess cities got the message, because instead of using their stimulus funds to replace dated and defective infrastructure, they are building new infrastructure that will immediately be obsolete and soon be defective. Specifically, many cities have decided to blow hundreds of millions of dollars of their stimulus funds on streetcars.

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