Dana7360
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Roads sewers and bridges are integral to interstate commerce. Guess who is responsible for that. Saint Louis has let the sewer system get to the point where they can't fix it by themselves. They are not the only cities in the same predicament. We do not even want to talk about the situation in rural America. The are many small towns and counties that have very little population. It takes approximately 1 million dollars per mile to build a road. Many roads have been neglected to the point where they are going to have to be replaced down to their base. This makes fixing them more expensive than building new because all the old materials have to be hauled away, disposed of or recycled. Many of the small towns and unpopulated countries do not and will not have the budget to fix them. The problem is actually much much more serious for these areas. Guesd who tends to live in these arras.Saint Louis has the worst sewer system in the United States. We have this thing called NACE. Stands for National County Ebgineers Association. I am well aware of the infrastructure conditions of the entire nation. I was a past president. I don't even want to begin to hear horse shit drivel on this subject. You will hit the ignore list quick. I only committed most my life to it. But thanks for your layman input on a subject you obviously know nothing about.Yes. Our roads sewers and bridges are atrocious. Every minute that goes by where they are not fixed it becomes significantly more expensive. I retired from fixing them because I did not want to get lynched when people can no longer get where they want to go and suffer the economic consequences of not being able to get where they need to go. I know at least 20 county engineers that are retiring in the next four years for the same reason in my state alone. Those are just the ones I know about there are likely more. Funding these projects over the last 15 years has become a freaking nightmare. We have been patching not fixing for a long time. So not only will this become extremely expensive in the very near future a good percentage of the people that know how to manage projects of this size will be gone. Good fucking luck!Do you agree we need to upgrade our infrastructure?
Should we pay for it or simply put the bill on the debt?
If we pay for it, how should we do that?
you must live in a shitty state,,
here is missouri things arent so bad outside the seasonal potholes and slow government workers,,,
then st louis should pay for it to be fixed and not the rest of the people in the country,,
its none of the feds business,,
I drove through several of them last month.
The roads are so bad it caused a 5 month old front tire on my car to literally blow up.
The AAA man who came to help told me it's normal. It happens all the time. In fact, it had happened to him 3 times in the last 2 years.
The thing is, it's not like that in my state. It's not normal for the road to destroy a 5 month old Bridgestone tire.
I guess they love to constantly have to spend the money to replace tires, do realignments, replace their shocks and other problems caused by those bad roads. We all know that the people in red states can afford to waste their money.