Will multimodal infrastructure save our region money on maintenance, leaving more funding to address flooding and drainage issues?
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Our overextended pipe system is driving up the cost of water for households across America.
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Social justice concerns are an acceptable motive for collective action, but they don't free us from the requirement that our infrastructure investments make financial sense.
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An engineering firm wakes up to the reality of the unsustainable suburban development pattern.
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We can either use an injection of federal infrastructure money to kick the can down the road so it becomes a future leader's problem, or we can use it to permanently address the issues our communities face.
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When a city zones for sparse land uses, it's forcing people in other municipalities with no say in the decision to subsidize this choice.
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Does anyone think the folks in the $700,000 suburban homes would be living there in anything like their current circumstances if they had to pave their own roads and pump water up to their own homes? Does anyone believe these homes would be worth $700,000 without the heavily subsidized public infrastructure?
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The worst part of all of this is that it happened to a poor and largely Black community. But they set an example for what citizen activism should be.
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This is how we do business in America. We’ve dedicated our resources to building new things with little regard to fixing it first.
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Rockford faces the challenge of reinventing itself while also meeting the mounting obligations of decades of infrastructure expansion. We did a little digging of our own to try and better understand the true nature of the deficit.
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Necessary repairs to roads and streets often get put off for a later time despite the fact that we see them decline before our eyes. This is an even bigger problem for underground infrastructure where the problem is out of sight, out of mind.
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