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Not really. Your tax dollars won’t support the road that private industry builds. If you never drive on that road, you’ll pay nothing for it. It sounds like a much better arrangement. The users pay the costs.

I'm for abolising the federal fuel tax used for road building. The dollars always tend to end up as pork in the districts of the most senior members of Congress. I wonder how many lives were lost due to delayed road improvements as a reslut of funding for the Big Dig in Boston.

Another thing is that state built roads get built at such a slow rate that they're obsolete before they open. I-35 between San Antonio and Hillsboro, TX is being widened to 3 lanes. Three lanes were needed in 1990 when the widening project was started. I doubt it will be finished by 2020. When you consider San Antonio, Austin and D/FW are all located along I-35, and are among the four fastest growing metropolitan areas in the entire United States you might get an idea of how inadequate the existing upgrade plans are for I-35. I did say they were three of the four fastest growing metro areas in the country. Well they other city in the top four is Houston. The whole triangle between D/FW, SA/Austin, an Houston/Galveston contains all four of the four fastest growing metro areas in the country. Just mererly expanding the capacity of existing roads isn't going to fix the mobility problem in the Texas Triangle.