The political clock and the infrastructure clock run at different speeds

Elected officials live on a two-to-four-year cycle; pipes, pensions, and pavement live on a thirty-year cycle. Every incentive rewards the ribbon-cutting over the relining, and the bill for deferral always lands on a future council that had no say. The only durable counterweight is making the invisible debts public, numeric, and impossible to unsee.

The flow — pursues → addresses → moves → measures

Challenge C1The political clock and the infrastructure clock run…→→

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