Continuity as strategy for sustainable development

SIR: It is no doubt that roads, highways, bridges, utilities, buildings, parks and other physical features of publicly built environment, if not adequately built, maintained and improved constitute a problem of urban decay, as the degree of usages of the infrastructure by the fast growing population will be extremely high.
 
Empirical research has it that growing proportion of business enterprises are strongly influenced by the infrastructures available in a given community. Hence in choosing a location for a business enterprise, a consideration of the available infrastructural facilities has to come to play or be in place.
 
In as much as public infrastructure has major impact on a community’s quality of life, patterns of growth, and prospect for economic growth, it will not be enough to provide infrastructure without maintenance and improvement, and initiate programmes and policies for development without implementation to their maximum functional capacity.