Taxpayer: For the last ten years, Metro City' s bridge-maintenance budget of $1 million annually has been a prime example of fiscal irresponsibility  In a well-run bridge program, the city would spend $15 million a year on maintenance, which would prevent severe deterioration, thus limiting capital expenses for needed bridge reconstruction to $10 million
However, as a result of its attempt to economize, the city is now faced with spending $400 million over two years on emergency reconstruction of its bridges
should have budgeted substantially more money for maintenance of its bridges