Knowledge at Wharton

America’s Aging Infrastructure: What to Fix and Who Will Pay?


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In the U.S. infrastructure is usually silent and forgotten -- until the power goes off the ATM stops working or a neighborhood is consumed by fire. In September a 54-year-old gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno Calif. killing eight people and damaging more than 50 homes. Seven weeks earlier an oil pipeline rupture in Michigan spilled more than a million gallons of crude. According to experts the country’s infrastructure is a huge market that holds tremendous business opportunities but the bulk of entrepreneurs and investors still wait on the sidelines because the projects are costly complicated and often risky.

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