Stop spending highway funds on other crap would be a good place to start.
Don’t get me started on the DFW Airport Connector Project, all it has done is added 30 minutes to my daily commute during construction, and for what? It wasn’t needed, other than for featherbedding.
The ugly secret is that highway repair companies are often rotten, and they lobby state legislatures hard to keep repairs using cheap materials that only last a few years. They will fight to the death to prevent quality road repairs, because it would put them out of business.
Many years ago, Phillips Petroleum created what amounted to Kevlar road bed. When laid down before the asphalt, the roadway would last much longer. But road repair companies bitterly fought it, and even had it outlawed in several states.
Texas used to have the best roads in the nation. Now days, they’ll rattle your teeth out.
Remember that traffic on some interstate highways is intentionally choked to divert drivers to other parts of each state doing the choking. Tourism, revenues,...
I fought this battle in the past...to prevent governments from using toll roads as piggy banks for enriching friends, as I suspect Governor Perry (here in Texas) was doing.
But I have a good income now, so I don’t care if it costs me 20 cents per mile to drive on a road that costs 1 cent per mile to maintain - I can afford it, and if others don’t step up to stop this robbery, screw them.
That's why many of those old highways lasted for decades without any significant repair and why the new ones have to be dug up every couple of years and re-done.
America’s roads are crumbling?
Kinda surprising, considering workers get paid every summer to repave the same roads they paved the summer before.