Infrastructure Engineer Gifts

Good Ideas, Lousy Execution

Metro North Entrance: Closed because it's broken.

"Dad, can we go for a ride in the car? All the potholes makes it seem like I'm on a fun carnival ride."

"Living in a city with functional infrastructure must be so boring."

"You may have been the victim of a mis-sold PFI contract."

"As I understand it, after this scaffolding comes down the city will be done."

The city of San Francisco switches from cable cars to satellite dish at a cost of only $79.99 a month for the first six months.

'Someone's got to do something about these pot-holes!'

'This 'infrastructure' stuff you keep talking about -- does it have anything to do with vegetables?'

'Welcome! You are now in Shambles!'

"This is just a model, but you get the idea."

"Neversource"

"'COST: shedloads, COMPLETION DATE: God knows.' Perhaps you'd care to flesh out some details for us."

HUAWEI 5G

'Guess they're still fixing the street.'

"Is it me, or are these potholes getting worse?"

'When you've a minute could you design a new health infrastructure for the area with budget forecasts staffing requirements and job descriptions...tomorrow will do.'

Third Option

Scientists building a tower

"So tell me again about the disastrous effects the Biden infrastructure plan will have on the deficit that you're suddenly so concerned about. . ."

Speed bump in honor of JD Yomp 1866 - 1957...inventor of Asphalt

"Buildings are falling down, roads are crumbling, fuel supplies are hacker. We break for an ad for drugs that will get you through it."

"The cost of HS2 was 115 billion, but that was when we started the interview. It's 130 now!"

'That's subsidence Sir Bryan - The charts are over here.'

US Infrastructure Deteriorating

Water shortage and waste due to leaks

The Mayor Alonzo Q. Furdweiller Pothole. Looks like the mayor and the city council are bickering again.

"Bad news - the local sewage plant is made of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete."

Small Government Is Here

"The tricky bit is finding some UK infrastructure that's working to switch it off."

They Always Say That

The Train to Nowhere

HS2 time bomb...

S**t Creek Halt

'He's a structural engineer.'