Wouldn’t water-gas-electric networks make for more apt comparisons than freeways?https://twitter.com/bswud/status/912321523360333824 …
If we're going into details, a big question is whether data network rollout is being done right. A road can be resurfaced, but...
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Laying line, even underground, is cheaper and less intrusive than road resurfacing, though. And far more versatile in its applications.
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My point is that the expensive bit of roadbuilding is clearing the space and saying "this is a road". Keeping it up to date is then easy.
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@StrongTowns have a billion pieces on this -
That's saying the Fed pays for new infrastructure that local gov then can't afford to maintain. Doesn't contradict my point.
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Fedgov’s gonna do that anyway. Might as well steer some of that spending to generate actual commonwealth
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Worst that can happen is money’s wasted, and that’s nothing new.
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... you can spend billions on network tech that is obsolete before returning much value.
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I remember the bandwidth envy many in Britain had towards Germany's high-tech domestic 64kb ISDN in the '90s. Then ADSL happened.
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Don't know much about France's Minitel - they had their own national text-based internet with social & commerce features in '80s
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Probably they got good value from it before it got superseded, but you could imaging laying it all out and then never using it
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