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I am sure it does Morris. 1 of the water main breaks near my house has been leaking for the last couple of years. They come out every couple months to fix it and then 2 weeks after they fix it it starts to leak again from the same spot.
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Thats what I am thinking Morris. I live in the county so we get our water from the city. But the county does some work on the water system in addition to the city. The city has had to enter into an agreement with the federal government here because they have not done any work in the last 50 years or so to maintain the system and replace older pipes. They said it will take at least 400 or 500 million to get most of it done.
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It`s much the same story with Saskatoon`s city streets that were let go for many yrs, patches over patches for pot holes and cracks. Money was supposedly money tight....except for a multi million dollar new art gallery, bicycle lanes, fancy brick sound barrier walls and the like. Finally streets are being redone and over passes built.
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Same here Morris. Streets are in bad shape for the most part. City doesn't have the money to fix it all. It took the city 6 years to finally pave a stretch of one road near the university. Baltimore's biggest problem has been the mass exodus of people over the last several decades. People leave to go to the counties or move out of state and the tax base shrinks and then not enough money for everything. But some of the issues stem before that started happening. Baltimore still has water mains that are 100 years old still in service that should have been replaced 50 years ago. One of the main rail links on the entire east coast of the US is the Howard Street tunnel. That tunnel was built between 1890 and 1895. it can not handle the amouunt of rail traffic that it sees.
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Here it`s the opposite Shaun with more folks moving in so traffic congestion is happening big time. Add to that there is a lot of repair work, new construction including over passes that should have been built yrs ago. All this is fitted into a 7 month season. 
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We have that here as well Morris. We get traffic for Baltimore as well as Washington. So traffic usually starts backing up the major roads and highways around Baltimore and between DC and Baltimore as early as 0500. Not to mentio the commuter rail for those that dont drive into Washington.
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A few businesses closing or down sizing here too but for the most part it`s fairly stable and still slowly growing. The jump in oil prices is a boost in Western Canada.
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Our steel mill closed back in 2012 when the last owner decided it wasnt worth running again. SO they sold off all of the usable equipment and demolished the mill. So it is being redevoloped into a business and park with warehouses and the like. Already have a few places in there with large buildings. Mainly Underarmour, Fedex, Amazon, and some more yet to come. And the port is going to expand there as well.
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That is about how it happened here. Bethlehem Steel went bankrupt. Then a new company took it over, They sold it about 2 years later to another company that was forced to sell it and then the last company sold it to a liquidation company after it was shuttered. My area lost alot of manufacturing jobs over the last 30 years. We lost Western Electric, GM, the steel mill among others. GM pulled out in the early 2000's when they discontinued the Astro and safari vans. They decided the old plant was not worth retooling since it had been built back in 1935.
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Here in the west we don`t have any big factories, at least on the scale of your`s. Mainly it`s agriculture, potash mining and uranium mining, oil, lumber along with a few smaller scale factories. When most of this is on the down ward cycle then the economy slows down fairly noticeably.