Not all infrastructure is worth replacing

On Streetsblog.net by Cap'n Transit posted an interesting point:

"I don’t think that the fate of the world depends on our ability to build or maintain large contraptions"

I agree that the value of a project is not related to the cost of the project. Too many times "we" make the mistake that because its expensive it must be worth doing. We are reaching a point where the cheaper options often have the most value as we have supersaturated what can be done with big expensive stuff. And too many are thinking the only way to fix big expensive stuff is with even bigger and even more expensive stuff. The ICC is a good example of the wrong kind of thinking "because it's really expensive it must be good." We need to start thinking differently, we need to understand that in heavily traveled corridors, providing transit options provides more utility and bang for the buck then just highway capacity expansions.

Streetsblog's post: <a href="http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-all-infrastructure-is-worth.html">http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-all-infrastructure-is-worth.html</a>;