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And then there is this. Without even grading on a Twitter curve (where I've gotten in a couple squabbles, not nothing "nasty" or really even "contentious"), is this for real? twitter.com/Noahpinion/sta

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Here's a Twitter counterpoint, from a non blue check, suggesting a question for someone who interviewed me this morning. I think this goes to the problem. The Infrastructure Cult, esp economists, don't get the local dimensions of infrastructure spending.

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Replying to @MarkLutter and @clmarohn

How has Strong Towns built an organization that is not red, blue, or even purple? I'd say that ST comes across as its own brand that doesn't fit any easy category because it is just Strong Towns.

It's all reduced to either (a) Washington DC-centric political calculus, or (b) a bean counting exercise based on macro economic theory and measurements of success. In that world,

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makes no sense. But, THAT'S NOT THE REAL WORLD (even less than Twitter is).

Instead of link to a thousand articles, I'll just do this...

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seems to suggest that we're not overbuilding our infrastructure. twitter.com/Noahpinion/sta Here's how I answer that in part 2 of a series I wrote on the American Jobs Plan. strongtowns.org/journal/2021/4

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When it Comes to Infrastructure, the American Jobs Plan is Business as Usual

And if federal spending alone could solve this, then why isn't the largest and most aggressive transportation spending package in my lifetime incapable of fixing more than 12% of highways in poor condition? Or more than 22% of bridges in disrepair.

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The Plan pretends to dig us out of the infrastructure hole we've dug ourselves into. In reality, it's making the hole bigger.

The American Jobs Plan Delays Necessary Infrastructure Reform

Only in a blue check, beltway-centric world is being pro-substantive reform seen as the same as saying "the federal government shouldn't spend money on infrastructure." The federal gov't needs to spend a ton more, just not on the same legacy programs.

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The top-down approach puts systems ahead of people and politics ahead of place—which is not what we need if we want to actually fix our infrastructure.