Infrastructure is still falling apart...better cut more federal funding. /s
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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And double down on car infrastructure that costs enormously more per mile per year per passenger, while ruining public health, urban planning and destroying the environment leading to accelerating disasters.
That’s just poor people problems. It doesn’t affect the rich so life is good.
The MBTA also needs at least an estimated $24.5 billion to bring its infrastructure to a state of good repair.
I knew that the MBTA had built up a huge pile of deferred maintenance on its infrastructure due to past funding shortfalls, but this is enormous. I commute to work every day via the T (commuter rail to red line), and it hasn't been too bad lately. However, I no longer live downtown, so I don't really use the system much beyond my commute these days.
Well that's an interesting question of priorities, isn't it? If mass transit systems fail in major cities, so do the industries that rely on those systems. Are the companies going to step up and provide their own busing for employees? I think they don't want to, I think they want to make the public pay for it all, I think they're going to apply political pressure to find taxpayer funding.
Corporations will just start Favelas. Never be late for work again!
And they are thinking of you, you can pay rent with company credits instead of worthless $$.