In a perfect world, things would happen like this:

Money would come in. Work would go out. No fuss, no muss.

In other news, just had to share this article with you:

some of the city's roads, bridges and other infrastructure predate not only the 1950s, but also the 20th century.

Pittsburgh has iron piping in its sewer system that is more than 150 years old. Other sewers are made from hand-crafted brick. The crumbling staircases that slither along city hillsides date to when people walked down to work at long-gone factories and mills on the riversides.