THE trick is to find inexpensive, easily built improvements on these roads, experts say.
During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps built improvements to the park system's infrastructure, employing 2.5 million young men during its nine-year existence.
He longs for the New Deal, the "finest hour" of American planning, when during a great economic calamity the government built improvements that Americans still use today.
After Japanese industrial giant Matsushita bought Yosemite's concessions in 1990, however, the Park Service gradually took ownership of the privately built improvements in all the national parks.
To do so, it works with enterprises to find out which metrics are important to them and actually builds improvement in those areas into its compensation.
When a collection of people work together, and one person makes an improvement, the others can often improve on this new solution even further: improvements build on improvements.
Software companies, for example, operate sophisticated user laboratories and employ keystroke-tracking technology in an effort to build incremental improvements into their products.
The cost is already offset by an estimated $200 million in entitlements from governmental bodies, including money to clean up the site and revenues from increased tax values to build infrastructure improvements, according to company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter said: "The Care Quality Commission recognises that Mid Staffordshire has made improvements in recent years, but the trust still has financial problems, which will make it more difficult to maintain and build on improvements in services for patients.
