The developed world looks set to embark upon a strategy of spending its way out of recession as countries announce significant programmes of public work to create jobs and pump $billions into the economy. But just how well will this money be spent? Allocating huge sums to building new road infrastructure, for example, can only create more problems in a significantly underfunded road maintenance programme.rnSystemic under funding for decades has left the road networks across North America, Europe and Australia in an extremely poor and often unsafe state, with the resultant congestion creating significant economic cost in lost productivity. Adding new road infrastructure without addressing the maintenance problem will simply add to this funding gap - estimated at over $1 trillion in the US alone. But are governments prepared to embark upon a strategic road maintenance and improvement programme that will both deliver new jobs and provide a quantifiable economic boost?
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