Future-proofing infrastructure for the next two or three generations sounds responsible.

It sounds visionary.

It can also be a spectacular waste of money.

Because the future rarely arrives exactly as predicted.

Technology changes.

Cities move.

Demand shifts.

Political priorities disappear.

And yet, we keep designing enormous projects to solve every possible problem for the next 50 or 100 years.

The result?

One project eats the budget.

It consumes the best people.

It takes ten years to plan, another ten to deliver, and creates so much complexity, controversy and grief that no politician wants to touch another major project afterwards.

That is not a pipeline.

It is a national trauma.

Sometimes, the better strategy is incremental.

Build what is needed now.

Protect the ability to expand.

Then keep improving the network through a constant pipeline of smaller, repeatable projects.

The country, the province, the city retains capability.

The market retains confidence.

Public agencies keep learning.

Contractors keep investing.

And politicians see infrastructure as something that can actually be delivered, not a once-in-a-generation gamble that may destroy their careers.

Infrastructure should serve future generations.

But that does not mean paying today for every problem they may possibly have.

Sometimes, the best way to future-proof infrastructure is simply to keep building.

For more common sense in infrastructure, you have a few ideas below.

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