I imagine nearly zero people are fine with their home being demolished for an infrastructure project. Unless they hated where they lived already. But how else would you ever build infrastructure projects? Sometimes, by nature of where the infrastructure needs to go, properties need to be acquired and buildings demolished.

A question is whether infrastructure needs to be built. Unfortunately, yes. Because we live in an economy that only works if things grow, we can expect life to be worse if things don’t grow. And the only way to avoid new infrastructure projects (in general) is to avoid growth so that what you have today works for all future needs.

We can dislike that all we want but I think it is true about how the US economy works.