Those roads and bridges aren’t goimg to fix themselves.
When the interstate highway system was built, even taking into account increased demand, couldn’t have predicted the volume of traffic that it has to endure today.
Most of the interstate system is near its end of life, and needs to be rebuilt and upgraded.
Trump is a builder, and knows how to make this happen, on budget, and on time. So when he talks about infrastructure, people need to listen.
IMO, today’s construction of roads isn’t as good as the construction of the roads I grew up on.
I was raised rural in Wisconsin. Those roads went thru hot muggy summers & cold, brittle winters. I remember one winter when our thermometers said —70 & that was long before the words ‘wind chill factor’. Every vehicle we had had a head bolt heater & was connected to power every night overnight.
However, we had gravel roads that had used oil spread on them & they didn’t wash out in bad rain storms. We had roads that handled farm equipment & milk trucks every single day of the week. In the winter, the snowplows scraped them well.
Today, the worthiness of road construction makes me cringe. I live rural east of Reno, Nevada. Alot of money was spent to build a new connector between Carson City & so Reno. Called I-580. That road was built since I moved here 11 years ago & they spent the major part of this past summer of 2016 repaving a large amount of it. The concrete was coming apart.
WHY? The basic parts of concrete haven’t changed. This makes me so mad, when taxes are spent in a manner that gives us shoddy roads & we have to keep spending more money for more shoddy work.