Building Resilient Infrastructure With a 'Broken' Revenue Model

Route Fifty: For Syracuse, New York Mayor Stephanie Miner, building a resilient city means that basic services and infrastructure won’t fail when extreme weather or other unexpected events hit.

“No matter what comes,” she said, “you have systems that are predictable and function.”

In upstate New York, where Syracuse is located, what the mayor described can involve looking at ways to ensure that water pipes don’t freeze during winter cold snaps and that the sewer doesn’t back up and overflow when powerful storms roll through, dumping rain.

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