The road taken : the history and future of America's infrastructure /
Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The road taken : givens, choices, forks, sighs
- The road not taken : words, reports, and grades
- Roads : dirt, stone, wood, concrete, asphalt
- Diverged : transcontinental journeys and interstate dreams
- Yellow : center lines, stop signs, traffic lights
- Could not travel : earthquakes, envy, and embarrassments
- In the undergrowth : elevateds, subways, and engineers
- Just as fair : location, location, location-- and financing
- Perhaps the better claim : iconic, signature, and stunning spans
- Because it was : guardrails, medians, and Jersey barriers
- Grassy and wanted wear : streets, lawns, speed bumps, potholes
- The passing there : sidewalks, curbs, gutters, horses, pavements
- Had worn them really : quality, shoddiness, and survivor bias
- About the same : good enough bridges and bad enough tools
- Lay in leaves : triage, budgets, and choices, again
- Trodden black : corruption, graft, waste, fraud, abuse
- For another day : trust funds, fuel taxes, and politics
- How way leads on to way : economics, wrong turns, and political choices
- Ever come back : pedestrians, preservationists, parks
- Telling this with a sigh : public-private partnerships : plusses and minuses
- Ages and ages hence : smart cars and pothole-free roads.