But nobody seems to want to live in urban areas--thus the suburbs. The more you tax the city center--the more people leave, and the more the city runs down. Birmingham is a horrible example. Here in Alabama, some fools are trying to build a domed stadium, and have a light rail system that I promise you no one will use.

I think it would be a smarter move if poorer citys/states were to pay for the Bering Strait Bridge and charge a toll for its use. You know that it would be used, seeing that we are losing one containership every year or so--and that rail traffic would aid the US gov't in wartime in troop transfer to reduce air travel.

But the developer-bought city councils still buy into the 'showcase city' nonsense--when in fact the same programs they think to lure citizens away from the suburbs just makes them move farther away. China can afford to do that since that country has something called 'heavy industry' which you see less and less of here. That is why Bejing will look cool, while Detroit looks like a dump. If we don't start getting coal, lignite and oil from Russia--China will get it all.

We have tar sands and oil shale here(and a lot of coal as well)--so a Bering Strait bridge could allow the US to actually become an energy exporter--if we spend more on transportation and less on the military.