We caused the Metro shutdown when we decided to let our cities decay - The Washington Post: "The truly terrifying thing about our slow acculturation to decay in the built environment is that it’s reaching crisis at the same moment that many Americans are entranced by one of this country’s most serious flirtations with authoritarianism. The response to earlier crises in the man-made world was: Everything is falling apart, so how do we fix it? Today, there is a more ominous question lurking in the background: Can no one make the trains run on time?
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