There are some remarkable stories of the private sector showing initiative when governments fail to maintain infrastructure.
- In response to dithering by government, residents and businesses
in Hawaii put up $4 million to fix an important community road. - Smugglers in Russia repaired a road to facilitate untaxed trade between Russian and Belarus.
- I also wrote about a guy in England who was fed up with the slow pace of road repairs and built a private toll road.
Regarding the final example, here’s a video on his project.
I’m particularly amused that this example of practical libertarianism (I’m guessing without the cost overruns that are inevitable with government) was made possible because zoning laws (normally an obstacle to sensible land use) basically allowed the organizer to ask for forgiveness afterward rather than permission beforehand.
To be sure, these isolated examples are hardly a sign that infrastructure is going to be…
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