White House says N.Y. suffering from ‘systemic’ infrastructure issues amid push for Biden’s $2T plan
New York is suffering from a “systemic lack of investment” in public transit, roads, bridges and a range of other infrastructure systems, causing excessive commute times and disparities in everything from housing and child care to internet access and drinking water, the Biden administration said Monday.
…what we now call infrastructure was called public works. Maybe that has something to do with my difficulty in understanding why we need federal money to repair our local roads, bridges, and transit lines, let alone child care and internet access. I get that federal money seems free, but it's not; wouldn't it be cheaper to just fix our own stuff and skip the red tape?
There is a credible argument, however, that some cities—especially major port cities—become so large they can no longer sustain themselves and descend into chaos. (You can read a lot more about that in a book called Out of the Mountains, by David Kilcullen, here.) Is New York City in danger of becoming one of those? Is it already?
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