[aaronbrethorst]

Don't you think _some_ effort has gone into automating the process and making it predictable? Here is a (french) example

This really underscores Klein and Thompson's argument: this infrastructure sclerosis seems to be a uniquely American problem.

This review of Klein and Thompson's book sums it up pretty well:

Adding a kilometre of subway track in the United States now costs twice what it does in Japan or Canada, and six times what it does in Portugal; in the past fifty years, the inflation-adjusted cost of a mile of interstate highway has tripled

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/abundance-ezra...