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"Trade with China is increasing greatly, and the costs of our transportation system are ultimately born by the consumer."

Then let's let the consumer have the say in the highway idea's survival. I believe if fact were put to public attention the idea will die as Americans would rather pay the few cents more per product as they're now doing and be assured America remains safe from illegals, drugs and associated crime, and threats from terrorism than have a free-for-all highway just so importers can pocket the "savings". Besides, to think consumers will EVER see any savings from the highway's construction is foolish.

It's so asinine that the TSA is so "safety minded" at airports yet the OBL wants a superhighway where tanker loads of explosives can enter America. What are the proposals for screening the increased traffic entries into the US besides an expansion of a 1950's method?

Besides, to think consumers will EVER see any savings from the highway's construction is foolish

Yeah those flat panel TV's will never be under $1,000.

BTW, those truck tankers coming through the border probably would go under explosive and radiation detectors, which would be much more efficent than we have now, where a hodgepodge of huge sea tankers cannot go under a centrally located huge radiotion or explosive detector.

free-for-all highway.... It's a toll road, not a freeway.

What are the proposals for screening the increased traffic entries into the US besides an expansion of a 1950's method?

From the article- Border guards and customs officers would check the electronic security tags of lorries and their holds at a £1.6 million facility being built in Kansas City, before sending them on to the road network that links the US cities of Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit with Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver across the Canadian border.