Quote Originally Posted by Hermod View Post
The problem for Troy [[and many other localities in the country) is that they budget on the basis that their tax base will continue growing year after year.
+1. This is why you see brand new community centers being built, new pools, libraries, and giant, fancy city halls; meanwhile the roads are undrivable, there are hundreds of water main breaks every year, there are regular sewer discharges into the rivers because of inadequate retention capacity...

City planners just love building new stuff when they can't maintain the stuff they already have. Hey, it's not like it's their money.