Detroit https://vk.com/video236542108_171474581?hash=072aa4dc529c1da9 (from small list will be in the tens), California (drought) http://loveopium.ru/severnaya-amerika/zasuxa-v-kalifornii.html, asphalt was changed to gravel, cheaper to service ... Education through the floor, young professionals are not required ... "Showcase" nobody polishes. She even stopped to wash.
Official explanation: None. Informal explanation: the cost of the system. My guess: the territory of the city and, by and large, no longer interested. Deflates the latter. And alles.
States, where shale gas is extracted... deliberately bloated, funded by the government and allowed ecologists shale mining bubble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iN6AT-C738 Slate - is less fertile land , minus the drinking water, the earthquake ... Again, knowing the guys illusions do not feed, all this long - gas pipelines from fields do not pull, the extra money to throw away do not want to ... profitable politically advantageous (for today) cost, but tomorrow ... Though some on hell, tomorrow?