Not content with filling potholes, governments promise to transform our lives with mass transit, urban infill, high-speed broadband, whatever is the latest social, as well as physical, engineering trend. The infrastructure projects are becoming ever-more grandiose. But if government has difficulty with those basic tasks, it might not be a good time to take on ambitious new ones, and endless debt to fund its soaring ambitions. Even those highly skeptical of the modern government agenda agree that the state must provide defence, criminal law and key infrastructure, because it is generally impossible to have competing transport networks due to the two-dimensional nature of the Earth’s surface. Why is government credibility involved? Because infrastructure is one of the most basic public responsibilities. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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