Texas is doing something similar - but then we have a history of doing that when the Feds won’t live up to their responsibilities. Won’t fund highways? Fine, we’ll make toll roads and then laugh when the Feds look stupid and inept by a simple quality comparison between said road and the crap they specified but wouldn’t pay for.
And we’ve been doing it since 1953.
Texas has the busiest freight crossing on the Continent and the second is Detroit. Its economically vital infrastructure.