[Overpaid Slacker]

I just don't accept the premise that Thom starts with -- our infrastructure is not crumbling.

I say that living in the highest traffic-corridor in the country, and driving on some roads that are embarrasments... but not every road (esp. those which are the most used and most used by heavy/commercial traffic) is going to be in good condition all the time.

Major urban center road transportation infrastructure is under extreme use and duress, and it's going to show wear .. especially in areas that have real winters, which halves the amount of time in any given year that roads can be worked on.

But to say our infrastructure is crumbling ... given what it's got to support, I have to ask, compared to what is it crumbling?

Amtrak is our transportation/infrastructure disaster area, and that's government run... coincidence? {gratuitous Supe baiting}

JP