Explain how a waterway crumbles into dust... :confused:

^^^ this^^^

Sure.
Negotiations happened in July. Scheduled for the future months too.

And as long as people come through the door, it will just be a shuffling of pay but zero real money.

History always repeats itself until you fix the problem.

There’s more to a waterway than water. Locks, dredging, plenty of stuff that needs maintained.

Not the definition the Coast Guard guy gave me in the boating class. And nobody dredges dust.

🙄. Pedantry is no fun for anyone.

The same can be said of hyperbole, yet that didn't stop the poster:

Originally Posted by atpcliff View Post

Meanwhile, US airports, seaports, waterways, ATC, roads, bridges, etc., etc. are crumbling into dust.

If our infrastructure was going to college, it certainly wouldn’t make the dean’s list.
https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/state-by-state/

More metaphors do not make an argument more convincing. Nor does it mean a waterway is turning to dust.

And of course the American Society of Civil Engineers wouldn't have any economic bias that would lead them to be pro- civil engineering infrastructure.

But don't get me wrong, I'm not against NEEDED infrastructure. I am against trying to import models that have evolved in areas of high population density and short distances (think Europe and Japan) into a country with relatively very low population density and long distances (think the US) and expecting them to be cost effective.

Soooooo.....
 

Any ideas if and when another proposal will be put forward? Was that it?