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We have some of the most ignorant humans in history, in leadership positions today.

Where the F do these people think we got our freeways we have used for the last 50 years? We got them from generations ago when people actually used their thinking caps and came up with an interstate highway system that was adequate for the projected population base.

We don’t build more oil refineries. We don’t build more power plants. We don’t build more water facilities.

What the hell do these idiots think we’re going to do in ten to twenty years?

Now they don’t want to expand highways.

Using their logic, we should stop producing food, since food only encourages more need for food.

These same elites came up with the grand idea of opening our borders and allowing 40 million people in across the wilderness. Today Los Angeles has more people than it’s highways, power plants, and water delivery systems can support.

Much of that increase in population, came to Los Angeles.

Now they bitch and moan that our roads are too crowded, and they can’t fix it. The way to fix it years agi was to block illegal immigration, allow the citizens to remain, and quit driving taxpayers out of state.

It was NOT to allow three or more families to live in a single family dwelling.

These Leftists overpopulated the place. Now they blame everyone else for the problems.

We can’t afford infrastructure, because so many folks are lounging their life away on the system and getting paid under the table on top of that.

It’s time for a reset.

Those are all valid points, but there’s a much more fundamental problem at work in the way transportation infrastructure is planned and built in most of the U.S. It’s impossible to do it well as long as the government agency overseeing the planning and design process for the infrastructure is not the same government agency that has authority to make land use and zoning decisions at the local level.

Go to any major urban area with a serious highway congestion problem, and invariably you’ll find the same historical pattern in the background: a state DOT — using a large sum of Federal highway funding — went out decades ago and built a major highway in an area that wasn’t heavily populated. Everything seemed to be done right back then. Then, over time, municipal governments all along that highway corridor said: “Hey, what a great highway! Now we can approve shopping centers and residential subdivisions, and people can live out here and work in that city 10 miles away. It’s only a 15-minute drive from here!”

That sounded like a great plan until everyone had he same idea ... and within ten years that 15-minute drive became a two-hour ordeal.

This story has been repeated endlessly across the U.S. The crux of the problem is that everyone wants to have the authority for land use decisions vested in local governments, but they want someone else to pay for the infrastructure that is needed to support the development.