Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.
Relevant xkcd:
Imagine seeing 69 random strangers walking down the street, densely packed in like that, for no reason. Just comin at you.
A lot of those โhighway programsโ include things like removing barriers to aquatic organism passage, reducing congestion and emissions from the movement of cargo, and other things that donโt suck. Itโs still weighed too heavily in favor of cars and highways for sure, but thereโs more getting funded by the IIJA & IRA than just, like, freeways.
Are you not into trains trams?
TBF US highways are undermaintained and a collapse could endanger lives.
Iโd rather have a railway expansion but we still gotta maintain whats been built.
That is premised on the notion that the expansion that has happened until the present is sustainable.
