America's infrastructure debt is so bad that towns are unpaving roads they can't afford to fix / Boing Boing
Here is what 35 years of ignoring the need to maintain public infrastructure have brought us:
"The chickens are coming home to roost in rural America, where paved roads have been neglected so long that they are effectively beyond repair, prompting municipalities to tear them up and replace them with car-smashing gravel roads whose dust pose a health hazard to residents and livestock."