JERSEY CITY - SOMETIME around noon on a recent Friday, someone thought it would be a splendid prank to place two orange-and-white-striped highway barrels smack in the middle of the crumbling, traffic-clogged half-mile viaduct here that funnels tens of thousands of cars into and out of the Holland Tunnel each day.
It suffers from a dysfunctional urban politics, crumbling infrastructure, traffic gridlock and inadequate investment in transit, growing income disparities, and a lack of affordable housing.
In lovely, crumbling, corrupt, traffic-congested Montreal, a lot of people pretty much hate the Quebec Charter of Values.
The capital is cheap, but its facilities are crumbling and its traffic horrendous.
Isn't is enough that we residents are subjected to real bad news (corrupt government officials, high taxes, crumbling roads, Shore traffic and a maligned state university) on a regular basis?
Roads and bridges are crumbling and congested with traffic.
The Highway 520 bridge connecting Seattle with the massive suburban population across the lake is 38 years old, too small for current traffic, and crumbling.
Until national leaders "get serious" about paying for those improvements, "commuters will be stuck sitting in even more traffic – and crumbling and inefficient infrastructure will remain a serious drag on our economic growth," Warner said in a statement.
Recent threats have shown that enterprise networks are penetrable, so attempting to protect a crumbling perimeter by contorting traffic patterns makes less and less sense.
The intense climate, which recently breached 100 degrees in Delhi; the crumbling infrastructure; and chaotic traffic also make travelling between from A to B a serious ordeal — especially if you're sitting in a lawnmower-engine powered, three-wheeler rick travelling at 10 miles an hour.
A fire hydrant dangled by its pipe in empty air, pieces of pavement crumbled downward, the traffic barrier and the sign saying "End" had washed away, and the house's lawn had been eaten back.
