[djmcmath]

While I'm less familiar with the 520 bridge than I should be, I know most of the other roads in the Puget Sound area, and can testify that infrastructure is sorely lacking.

Further, I'll say that it isn't a problem localized to The Greater Seattle Metropolitan Area. Boston suffers from the same thing. So does Hartford. And Norfolk. And DC. And Baltimore. Even Spokane and Coeur'd Alene suffers from poor infrastructure.

Fundamentally, this country has failed to realize the critical importance of having roads that make sense. Hitler recognized how critically important infrastructure was -- that's why he built the Autobahn, and made the trains run on time -- because infrastructure is what makes the economy go! That's one of the things that the USSR failed at -- they still have dirt roads through most of the country, while Eisenhower was building freeways.

We've missed the boat. We're 20 years behind the infrastructure power curve, and we'll have to fight to catch up. But that will cost money, which we'd rather spend elsewhere.