In its report on the shortlist, the IOC described London's rail system as "often obsolete" and the roads as congested.Part of the problem is that, until recently, it had been assumed that the Olympics would hasten, and benefit from, Crossrail, a long-mooted plan for a high-speed east-west railway across the city.
Some Republicans say this state's political inclinations are simply shifting, giving a more conservative bloc a far louder voice and leaving them wondering whether that old Illinois stalwart, the middle-of-the-road Republican, is obsolete.
In Suffolk County, tax professionals said that towns that do not begin to reassess all properties annually may be heading down Nassau's road, with an increasingly obsolete tax roll that will eventually have to be corrected in one painful jolt.
But the summer of 2008 is starting out like a cruel joke, with air travel increasingly a nightmare and with wildly escalating gas prices threatening to make the road trip all but obsolete.
The proposed 40-metre-wide road, planned in the 1980s, was now "obsolete", and would make the waterfront "inaccessible to the public ".
Most of the now obsolete city wall was pulled down to build the roads, but two forts, a large gate, and a section of the wall were preserved.
As an example, the study reveals that more than 25% (more than one in four) of the Yogyakarta special regions' bridges and road's are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
No one suggests that the face-to-face meeting is becoming obsolete, or that it is time for a requiem for the road warrior.
Try and find a local road map today and you will see how apparently obsolete these treasure troves of information have become.
America's civil engineers routinely give its transport structures poor marks, rating roads, rails and bridges as deficient or functionally obsolete.
