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To: combjelly who wrote (456867)2/16/2009 10:34:50 AM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1575706
 
To be fair, maintenance has also been deferred because it is sexier to build new roads, highways and bridges than to make sure the old ones are fixed.

Sexier, maybe. The real reason is that it is perceived as bringing home the bacon to build a new road. Routine maintenance is just viewed as routine maintenance. I guess sexier is a good term.

The best example I can think of today is the I69 corridor project -- the so-called "NAFTA Superhighway" (LOL). A total waste of money.



To: combjelly who wrote (456867)2/16/2009 3:41:05 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1575706
 
"but the fact remains that we have been deferring maintenance on our infrastructure for years."

To be fair, maintenance has also been deferred because it is sexier to build new roads, highways and bridges than to make sure the old ones are fixed.

That too but you can only do that for so long as we saw in MPLS two summers ago.


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