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Giant infrastructure projects are a weakness of democracies. It's tough to get everyone to agree and pay for huge projects that take long term vision and planning.
Or you could call it a strength because it's stable and can't be changed too fast by one guy with a short term bad idea.
Did you completely ignore the US highway system built in the 50s, that created a car dependant infrastructure?
Cool and what has been done lately? Infrastructure seems to just be crumbling cause nobody wants to pay to fix anything.
Nobody does maintenance in authoritarian regimes, either. It's not a priority under any governance system