21st Century Highways: Innovative Solutions to America's Transportation Needs

21st Century Highways views the worsening road congestion as one of the chief deficiencies of the existing highway programs and argues that diminished mobility is contributing to a loss of economic vitality. Having acknowledged the problem, ordinary citizens and policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels must now decide what to do about these troublesome trends. Do we get rid of the federal program, substantially reform it, or simply let it run its course and seek other mechanisms and institutions to fill the void caused by an increasingly distracted federal program that still commands extraordinary resources?