But Omaha’s solution is extreme: grinding paved streets into gravel as a way to cut upkeep costs. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut infrastructure is also decaying at the most local levels — on cul-de-sacs and in neighborhood playlots unlikely ever to see federal funding. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIn Youngstown, Ohio, officials closed off some uninhabited streets. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThen repair costs escalated, and potholes started going unfilled. And while other urban areas, such as Oklahoma City and Lincoln, Neb., have some gravel roads, those streets had never been paved.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2017 13:07 UTC