Costs. While revenues, at least direct ones, are fairly easily tracked, the same is not necessarily true of
costs. It can be difficult (and a source of potential disagreement) to define which costs are relevant and then to
determine to what extent they were increased by the opening of a casino. While the construction of a new highway
built specifically to serve a casino might be relatively easily identified, as when the state of New Jersey spent about
$220 million in public funds to build a connector to link a cluster of casinos in Atlantic City to the Atlantic City
Expressway, measuring the added maintenance cost to existing roadways directly attributable to the additional
vehicle traffic generated by a casino can be more complicated, although by no means impossible. While the economic
costs of social pathologies associated with crime or problem gambling have been studied in detail (with
often wildly divergent results), the ongoing public service costs associated with a casino, which is, after all, a major
facility generating substantial service and infrastructure demand, have hardly been explored.