Interstate highway conditions
After traveling from North Idaho to Florida towing our trailer---I have to say the Interstate highway system is horrible! Dwight Eisenhower would be ashamed of the way our states and federal governmen...
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Not only do the different states control the money and how it is spent for road repairs, but in many, maybe most states, the actual contracts are issued by county or regional level highway groups.
In Texas we don't see it much on interstates, but on state and US highways the change when you cross a county line can be obvious.
We do have a state wide highway agency, but they cannot enforce minimum standards for contracts.
Since highway money is a source of power by local political figures, the system will not change much, no matter how much money is put into the highway system.
Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age, but until we change the system with term limits, and the people taking back power at the local level, the higher national system will never change.
In Texas we don't see it much on interstates, but on state and US highways the change when you cross a county line can be obvious.
We do have a state wide highway agency, but they cannot enforce minimum standards for contracts.
Since highway money is a source of power by local political figures, the system will not change much, no matter how much money is put into the highway system.
Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age, but until we change the system with term limits, and the people taking back power at the local level, the higher national system will never change.
