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If only we could say the same about the quality of road surfaces and traffic.

Way too much corruption to afford us good roads at a good price. National state roadway construction entities run at huge 'losses' and 'debt' with the money presumably siphoned away for the benefit of the party in power.

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Why the quotes? Roads are expensive to maintain, what makes you think the money must inherently be misspent?

Probably because they are not, despite the money disbursed, maintained.

That in and of itself is not a signifier of mismanaged funds.

Without knowing what much they should cost, there’s no way to know what the roads should look like.

Americas sprawling land use is extremely expensive to maintain.

I took the topic to be roads in India.

The quality of the roads, the rapidity with which they degrade, the timing of the repairs, the allocation of contracts. Corruption is like air when it comes to road construction in India.

Ah I didn’t realize you were talking about India, my mistake.

No worries. I could have been more explicit too.

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