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The phrase "rundown infrastructure" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is typically used to describe infrastructure (such as roads, buildings, or utilities) that is in a state of disrepair or deterioration. Example: The city's rundown infrastructure is in desperate need of repair, with pothole-ridden roads and crumbling bridges causing daily headaches for commuters.
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With little money to repair the city's rundown infrastructure, Rama undertook a rough-and-ready makeover, ordering its drab, communist-era apartment buildings to be repainted in bright, bold colours.
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When the Spanish took Naples in 1503, they found it "a very rundown city whose whole infrastructure badly needed making over".
Infrastructure was rundown in most departments and environmental health was poor, failing most checks against the National Healthcare Standards Assessment NHSAA) tool for Zambian Health Facilities.
The Cleveland Foundation put up $1 million of its own money and challenged University Circle's major institutions to help pay for infrastructure improvements, like rebuilding rundown train stations and reconfiguring what is known as "suicide circle".
"We inherited a crumbling infrastructure, starved of funding; Victorian schools with rundown gyms, and thousands of playing fields sold off," Sutcliffe said.
I was struck by how much nicer the Munich airport is than our rundown Kennedy International airport; arriving to a clean, spanking new facility made me realize once again that our aging and crumbling infrastructure is a bigger problem than we are acknowledging.
But the focus in his recent speeches has been on subsidies for manufacturing, government spending on infrastructure for transportation and information networks, and most recently money to lower interest rates for some homeowners and rehabilitate rundown homes.
"Here's the rundown.
"Tired, rundown, nervous".
The property was rundown.
Back then, Pera Palace was picturesquely rundown.
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