Everyone likes to say that, kind of like everyone likes to say "terrible U.S. education". Fact is that U.S. transportation/communication systems (along w/ U.S. education for that matter) are first rate.
The roads here in Northern California are really awful — “crumbling” describes them to a tee. But these are mainly state roads that are not the purview of the Feds. If we ended all the spending on illegals, we could
pave our roads with gold.