Rethinking Americas Highways
Rethinking Americas Highways Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America…
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Rethinking Americas Highways
Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides its highways. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair.
He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities--like electricity, telephones, and water supply. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits.In Rethinking America's Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and