infrastructure

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Ciccarone arrived at that figure by looking at infrastructure assets’ original cost and their “useful life”: the number of years that cities estimate each road, bridge or vehicle will last.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

“The study highlights a real and important challenge facing local governments nationwide,” said Spencer Duncan, mayor of Topeka, Kan. “Like nearly all cities, Topeka faces a fundamental challenge: infrastructure needs exceed available funding.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

In it, Ciccarone used the few numbers cities do report on the age and intended life of their buildings and infrastructure to come up with the $1.03 trillion wear-and-tear figure for the 2,000 U.S. cities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Estimates of how long assets will last don’t necessarily take into account “actual infrastructure performance,” said Duncan, the Topeka mayor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Making Egypt pay, therefore, depended on keeping up the infrastructure and social institutions that had already existed for millennia, such as irrigation, flood control, and conscripted labor.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro