Most people only notice infrastructure when it isn't working for them - great infrastructure tends to disappear when it's doing its job right. It's expensive, the victim of tragedies of the commons, and all too easy to take for granted.

Infrastructure is often underappreciated. Also, when I'm in another less familiar city, I'd also love to be able to explore

I've always wanted these reflected in a single place, as a way to both better remember this information and share it with others.

Over time, I've developed a detailed mental map of infrastructure changes going on in the city. It's surprisingly hard to get information about these questions, and even more so for less prominent projects going on around the city. I wonder other questions too, like how much it cost, who lobbied for it at City Hall, what its capacity will be, and so on. Whenever I walk past it, I wonder 'when are the buses going to start running?'. Curios is like Quora, but for urban infrastructure projects.Īnswering questions about big urban construction projects usually requires a Google search and then digging through a bunch of information, but what I'd like to be able to do is just geolocate myself on a map and see a little marker for the project, to click on it, and learn whatever key facts I want about the project.įor example, the Transbay Terminal has been under construction as long as I've lived in San Francisco.

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