No offense, but you don’t even know what you’re talking about. Since the mid-90s the Federal gas tax has been fully allocated to transportation funding. The problem is that inflation and improved fuel efficiency have eroded the value of the fuel tax revenue over time — even as the needs for this revenue have grown.
I don’t know about where you folks live, but where I live, I see constant ‘construction projects’ going on all the time.
People seem to talk as if repairing the infrastructure is a one time repair job.
It doesn’t work that way.