I appreciated your column on maintenance (“Pay Me Now, or …” MSW, October 2008). It is high time all the infrastructure press paid attention to the Achilles heel of our wonderful country. It has become a standard political ploy to pretend that everything is fine when maintenance budgets are always the first line item to get deferred or buried. Then, when the inevitable catastrophe occurs, eyes are widened in surprise: “Wow! How could this have happened?”Our company builds parametric digital models that look at all aspects of an infrastructure project to include not only its design and construction feasibility but
