The US should really just directly employ regional workers to handle these projects. Corruption and nepotism are rampant in public construction projects, and the profit motive requires an inefficient use of tax dollars since we must pay a completely useless margin just so somebody can become richer for doing zero work.
We also need to stop expanding highways since additional lanes have been proven to not help congestion, and actually worsens it because it encourages more driving.
I remember when they expanded rt 3 in MA. I said to myself “It’ll be packed in a few years.” Sure enough people immediately packed into the towns along it or changed their routes and now it is a jammed as every other highway, just wider.
The US should really just directly employ regional workers to handle these projects. Corruption and nepotism are rampant in public construction projects, and the profit motive requires an inefficient use of tax dollars since we must pay a completely useless margin just so somebody can become richer for doing zero work.
We also need to stop expanding highways since additional lanes have been proven to not help congestion, and actually worsens it because it encourages more driving.
I remember when they expanded rt 3 in MA. I said to myself “It’ll be packed in a few years.” Sure enough people immediately packed into the towns along it or changed their routes and now it is a jammed as every other highway, just wider.