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IN THE 1920s the Lambert Flying Field in St Louis, Missouri, was a hive of innovation and celebrity. It became the first airport with a traffic-control system, waving flags at pilots. Charles Lindbergh flew airmail from it before making the first solo flight across the Atlantic. Today the airport is old, obscure and drab. So in 2017 it joined an experimental privatisation scheme, a key plank of President Donald Trump's effort to revamp America's infrastructure. By 2019, according to a confidential note seen by The Economist, a project to modernise it had attracted 18 bids from the great and good of the infrastructure-investment industry. At the end of that year, however, the mayor of St Louis abruptly cancelled the project. Four days later the privatisation of the Jacksonville electric utility, in Florida, was also pulled, derailing another big public-private partnership (ppp). In both cases investors had spent tens of millions of dollars preparing bids. For one, the double whammy symbolises all that is wrong with America's infrastructure procurement. "It's Lucy and the football," he says, referring to a character in Peanuts, a comic strip, who torments Charlie Brown by holding a ball out to him, only to pull away as he goes to kick it, so he always falls on his bottom.
机译:在20世纪20年代,密苏里州圣路易斯的兰伯特飞行场是创新和名人的蜂巢。它成为具有交通控制系统的第一个机场,在飞行员处挥舞着旗帜。 Charles Lindbergh在让大西洋的第一个独奏飞行之前从中飞来飞往航空邮件。今天,机场老,晦涩蓬勃的单调。因此,在2017年,它加入了一项实验私有化计划,是唐纳德特朗普总统努力改造美国基础设施的关键格局。到2019年,根据经济学家看到的一项机密票据,这是一个现代化的项目,它吸引了来自基础设施 - 投资行业的伟大和利益的18个出价。然而,当年结束时,圣路易斯市长突然取消了该项目。四天后,佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔电效用的私有化也被拉了,脱轨了另一个大型公私合作(PPP)。在这两种情况下,投资者花费了数千万美元的准备投标。对于一个,双重Whammy象征着美国基础设施采购的所有问题。 “这是露西和足球,”他说,指的是花生的一个角色,一个漫画,通过把球拿着一个球拿着一个球,只要他踢它,就会踢它,所以他总是落在他的底部。

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    《The economist》 |2021年第9226期|共3页
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