Californians don't need no steenkeen highways. They want to protect the bugs and birds and sea critters, so they put their land off limits to refineries and their waters off limits to oil drilling. They shouldn't be given a dime from the federal coffers for any highway building and should be riding bicycles. That would also keep them trim and fit, another doctrine in their religion of self-absorption.
Development money goes where there isn't any development and there is cheap land to steal from timber landowners by selective regulations. Heck, why else is there a six lane freeway through Garberville?