Not mentioned in most discussions about infrastructure is that the US routinely spends 5 - 10x other developed countries for like pieces of infrastructure due to how projects are planned and implemented. This huge degree of waste, more than anything else, is what holds infrastructure development back.<p>If we could get 5x the amount of infrastructure for the money, most of these problems would be magically solved. But this solution involves a lot of hard work reforming processes many have a vested interest in keeping exactly the same, rather than just throwing more money at the problem.