I live in a rural community that isn’t absolutely cared about by the rest of the county and the state as well.
The two of us don’t have priority for infrastructure improvements or repairs, leaving us with crumbling buildings and roads with cracks and potholes.
Any cash that is available for public maintenance projects is given to the richer communities that present a better image of the state to outside travelers and tourists. They guess that focusing their cash on the locations that attract the most tourism will supply them an immediate return on their investment. On 1 hand, I can see the logic in it if you are focused purely on the financial angle and them being self-interested about how that cash is spent. Still, I think that every one of us spend money taxes just enjoy anyone else and deserve a small portion of the cash that is spent on infrastructure in this whole state. While not all of the roads in this state are made with reinforced concrete, or even need it in the first location—it honestly shows in our community what cheap road building creates just a decade or 2 after the road is created. The concrete and asphalt roads around here are full of cracks and potholes. If rebar reinforced concrete had been used on some of these roads, the cracks wouldn’t have spread so suddenly enjoy they have. However, states often see these as unnecessary expenses. Some will argue that the only roads that need rebar reinforced concrete are things enjoy airport runways or bridges. And in the case of the latter, you’d want to go 1 step further and use corrosion resistant rebar tie wire enjoy galvanized steel or stainless steel rebar and double loop ties.