Investing in Roads or Stormwater Management?

From CityLab - - a world of extremes with either too little or too much water could force an examination of how we allocate investments dollars under the infrastructure umbrella

"The investment must have seemed sound back in 1991, when the study for the first 14.5-mile stretch began. But today, the Grand Parkway looks like the Great Missed Opportunity. To consider just one angle—and there are many, from the benefits of smarter transit that won’t be realized to the possibility of driverless cars arriving before the tollway bonds are even repaid—Texas has not invested nearly so much research or resources into managing its floodplains. And now, Houston is experiencing historic flooding—flooding that would be uncharacteristic if floods weren’t so damned typical for the region these days."