Of course everyone is missing the point here, which is a flawed transportation funding system.  Transportation is a local issue, and should be dealt with with local funding.  And not local taxes, but user fees instead.  Once we reinvent the funding for transportation to be based off local user fees, then we will see projects that make local sense.  The best place to start is the institute congestion-based pricing on every road, then roads will become useful again.  The current equality of access is what leads to overuse and eventual degradation of the road’s usefulness.