>>1735533This book suggests the U.S. stop building new infrastructure unless it is definitely expected to generate net profit very quickly. This includes everything from bike lanes to passenger rail to suburban residential streets to expressways with five-level stack exchanges. This would force people and municipalities to prioritize public investments that would actually be used because new infrastructure would need such a strong business case that it would immediately increate property values so much that property tax revenue increase would immediately start paying off the interests on the loan the cities took out to build that infrastructure, or it makes people's travel so convenient that they would pay the toll or buy a ticket to use that infrastructure.
