Power is a nightmare! We just precariously string up more high voltage lines on poles because we can't figure out how to do street construction at a reasonable cost or on budget. These now cause massive wildfires every summer, as well as frequent outages from random things like balloons hitting the lines.
San Francisco had a plan and still has a tax in place to bury power lines, but they pre-spent all the money in 2007, made much less progress than expected, and haven't made any additional progress on it since.
More generally, infrastructure like trains and bridges are incredibly difficult, unpredictable, and expensive to build now. The California high-speed rail and Caltrain extension are effectively indefinitely postponed at this point. It's a perfect example of exactly what I was saying - it's a problem that has been solvable in the past, there are examples of other countries doing a much better job of it, but the US is completely unable to do it.
Where exactly do you look at infrastructure projects in the US in the past 2 or 3 decades and see this success story you're talking about?
San Francisco had a plan and still has a tax in place to bury power lines, but they pre-spent all the money in 2007, made much less progress than expected, and haven't made any additional progress on it since.
More generally, infrastructure like trains and bridges are incredibly difficult, unpredictable, and expensive to build now. The California high-speed rail and Caltrain extension are effectively indefinitely postponed at this point. It's a perfect example of exactly what I was saying - it's a problem that has been solvable in the past, there are examples of other countries doing a much better job of it, but the US is completely unable to do it.
Where exactly do you look at infrastructure projects in the US in the past 2 or 3 decades and see this success story you're talking about?