> Airport transit investments are, sadly, incredibly hard to justify.
Somehow other countries manage to justify it. Tokyo, London, Paris (TGV too!), Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Beijing... the list goes on. But somehow building infrastructure is hard to justify in the US. Pennywise and pound foolish.
Very few of those places built the airport extension first, or spent the entire bank account on just the airport extension. Given limited dollars, airports are at best a middling concern.
A combination of low appetite for taxes, poor spending, and the disadvantages of being the first movers when it comes to infrastructure.
China is able to rapidly build infrastructure because it didn’t have very much. In twenty to fifty years when everything is dur for replacement, that will be the true test of infrastructure.
Somehow other countries manage to justify it. Tokyo, London, Paris (TGV too!), Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Beijing... the list goes on. But somehow building infrastructure is hard to justify in the US. Pennywise and pound foolish.