Sadly not true - father was a civil engineer in council highways dept before he retired. For years he had been saying that funding was so small they were having to patch roads where they should have been renewing the road bed. Now they can't even afford to do all roads. It might be a problem of funding allocation of course - but it wasn't a lack of desire.
Yeah, I'm saying maintaining infrastructure is not a political priority, because it doesn't win elections.
Not that the people working in infrastructure maintenance waste the money.
They care about education, social services and care for the vulnerable more.