AMERICAN ROADS ARE CRUMBLING. You know this. You might even know crappy infrastructure cost an American family of four more than $3,000 a year. Or that, even after a 2015 transportation bill injected a lifesaving $70 billion into the federal highway fund, the Congressional Budget Office a projects an $8 billion funding gap when the legislation runs out in 2021.
Help is on the way, you say! President Donald Trump will soon reveal his hotly anticipated $1 trillion plan to fix everything, the one even Democrats could support. Well, sorry. First off, $1 trillion will barely cover what the Department of Transportation estimates is a $836 billion backlog in highway investment needs.
