Why the USA Have Bad Infrastructure

All nations, if they are to be modern economies, require robust infrastructure that meets the needs of their age and time; during the industrial age, factories needed to be built, and roads to be maintained in cities to be constructed with the necessary infrastructure for manufacturing cities.

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In the 18th and 19th centuries, England built sophisticated Riverway networks and locks throughout the country to transport coal, steel and other goods for manufacturing; this process repeated itself around the globe.

The United States has such poor infrastructure due to the period it began industrialisation in the late 19th and early 20th century. New technology was developed, including the internal combustion engine; for example, England and Europe invested their resources in trains, rivers and locks.

America chose to invest in the automobile and not trains, rivers that were predominant in the old world.

To understand America’s poor infrastructure, we must remember the Federal Highway Act of 1956, which aimed to build a country system of Interstate highways throughout the USA.

This highway project is one of the main reasons American infrastructure is poorly designed. The Federal Highway Act, which aimed to build a country system of Interstate highways throughout the USA, significantly influenced urban planning.