Aint that a bitch mowing the middle though.
I work in the transportation field (surface transportation engineering) and the way it works here in Georgia is that a relatively small part of the state’s transportation funds are granted to the various countys for local road maintenance and improvements. The countys use most of that money for resurfacing. So now the funds aren’t there at the state level and the countys don’t get the allocations for resurfacing, pot hole fixing, etc. The top > down system is failing. Less federal spending on transportation infrastructure eventually finds its way down to the county level.