Infrastructure Cult Math

We're being asked to spend tens of billions by people who can't seem to be able to do second grade math.

#DotheMath, #NoNewRoads, The Infrastructure CultCharles MarohnMarch 24, 2015infrastructure cult, Highway Trust Fund, highway spending, transportation spending

Infrastructure on Last Week Tonight

John Oliver is a comedian in the court jester genre: speaking truth to power.

The Infrastructure CultCharles MarohnMarch 3, 2015Highway Trust Fund, infrastructure cult, American Society of Civil Engineers

Best of Blog: Some perspective on the gas tax

We may have a transportation funding problem, but that’s not what is going to take us down. Our real problem is that we have not had to think about what we are doing for a long, long time. We’ve been so wealthy and affluent that funding the most bizarre transportation arrangement on earth became akin to the American way of life. Congestion-free roadways and ample parking are to the United States what bread and circuses were to Rome. Get out your fiddle, that smoke is real.

#DotheMath, #NoNewRoads, Best of Blog, The Infrastructure Cult, TransportationCharles MarohnDecember 9, 2014infrastructure cult, MoveMN, Highway Trust Fund, American Society of Civil Engineers, gas tax

They relocate a business and call it growth

Thirty two new jobs (projected), a million dollars in direct subsidies and millions more in transportation funding later, we’ve managed to move two businesses from one Minnesota community to another. And we call that “creating” jobs and businesses. Rome (AD 56): They make a desert and call it peace. America (AD 2014): They relocate a business and call it growth. Have we fallen so far that telling ourselves lies is the best we can do?