Chapter 5
The Long Term Plan for Infrastructure
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
If you don’t invest for the long term, there is no short term.
George David
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a
ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual
navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles.
Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port
nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
Peter Drucker
The best way to predict your future is to invent it.
Abraham Lincoln
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well
understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a
key role in long-term economic expansion.
Kevin Rudd
The infrastructure deficit in India is widely recognised as a
constraint on growth. Congestion on highways, ports,
airports, and railways has increased, as have power
shortages . . . . This widening deficit is characterised by the
fact that the demand has grown much beyond the anticipated
levels and the creation of infrastructure has persistently fallen
short of the targets set by the government.
Gajendra Haldea
What we build today will last centuries.
Santiago Calatrava
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be
different.
Peter Drucker
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The Long Term Plan for Infrastructure
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
If you don’t invest for the long term, there is no short term.
George David
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a
ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual
navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles.
Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port
nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
Peter Drucker
The best way to predict your future is to invent it.
Abraham Lincoln
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well
understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a
key role in long-term economic expansion.
Kevin Rudd
The infrastructure deficit in India is widely recognised as a
constraint on growth. Congestion on highways, ports,
airports, and railways has increased, as have power
shortages . . . . This widening deficit is characterised by the
fact that the demand has grown much beyond the anticipated
levels and the creation of infrastructure has persistently fallen
short of the targets set by the government.
Gajendra Haldea
What we build today will last centuries.
Santiago Calatrava
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be
different.
Peter Drucker
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
V. Proag, Infrastructure Planning and Management: An Integrated Approach,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48559-7_5
133