Step one: eliminate federal gas taxes and highway subsidies. I swear the local cities can’t fill a pothole without filing for a federal grant and waiting a year for it to be approved. By then it costs ten times as much to do the repair. Just let the states and cities charge that tax and pay for road work quickly.
“Just let the states and cities charge that tax and pay for road work quickly.”
A fine idea but FedGov isn’t going to let the power that federal funds gives them. Seems every couple of years there’s a story about FedGov threatening to withhold fed funds if some state doesn’t do something totally unrelated to the funds threatened.