Last but not least, private enterprises are allowed to own their own infrastructure. In many countries, construction licences are conditioned on participation in infrastructure costs. Transport infrastructure all over the world is decrepit. Maintenance is bad. Planning is absent.
Corruption is rampant.
The only hope is to remove as much as we can from the process of planning and constructing transport infrastructure from the hands of the state. Maybe this will even attract the billions dollars under mattresses and carpets in the informal economy. The Humor Source Webmasters' Ezine Gothic.