Despite the enactment of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in 2021, which included $350 billion for federal highway programs, America's highway quality and spending in recent years haven't seen major changes.
There's been a small uptick in spending, a small uptick in highway quality, and a small decrease in congestion. But a revolution on America's roads this is not.
"Things are pretty much steady," says Baruch Feigenbaum, the senior managing director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation (which publishes this website) and lead author of its latest annual highway report.
