Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance!
But a recent report by the Transit Center, a public transportation advocacy group, estimates
that New York City bus service could be greatly improved with relatively small costs and a few simple fixes like redesigning bus routes — giving the city far more bang for its buck
But their inaction is a symptom of a deeper problem, one
that is too seldom discussed: Americans have an impoverished and immature conception of technology, one that fetishizes innovation as a kind of art and demeans upkeep as mere drudgery.
He has also proposed a similar project that would revolutionize transportation
in Los Angeles by creating an enormous system of underground traffic tunnels.
The American Society of Civil Engineers considers 17 percent of American dams to be “high hazard
potential,” including the one outside Oroville, Calif., that nearly collapsed in February.
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