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> When people say infrastructure they usually mean roads.

[citation needed]

Granted, I can only speak for myself, but when I hear the word "infrastructure" I'm picturing a smörgåsbord of different things:

- Roads

- Bridges

- Tunnels

- Rail lines

- Canals

- Levees

- Electrical delivery (power lines, distribution boxes, etc.)

- Telecommunications delivery (data lines, radio towers, etc.)

- Fuel delivery (pipelines, refineries, storage, etc.)

- Water delivery (pipelines, aqueducts, reservoirs, wells, desalination plants, etc.)

- etc.

This is consistent with Wikipedia's definition of "hard infrastructure" (as opposed to "soft infrastructure", which focuses on institutional structures/organizations).



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