Philadelphia has repeatedly killed people due to aging infrastructure. They have wooden pipes 100 years old. Half my block caved in due to a sewer collapse. They estimate all the current backlog of pipes will be done in 100 years.

Yes you can start it, but should we bow to political pressure to put off maintaining infrastructure? No. There's a real cost to maintain this stuff. But a political force doesn't want to raise prices so it gets depayed.