By the mile

[Renauda]

Why a Federal responsibility? Should public roadways not be shared by Federal and State governments? What about municipal roadways - some should be exclusively municipal others in partnership with state and possibly even federal funding grants.

[LuFins Dad]

@renauda said in By the mile:

Why a Federal responsibility? Should public roadways not be shared by Federal and State governments? What about municipal roadways - some should be exclusively municipal others in partnership with state and possibly even federal funding grants.

I'm not getting your question? Intrastate roadways already are and should be the responsibility of local and state authorities, interstate roadways are the responsibility of the federal government. I have no expectations of Uncle Sam paving the road in front of my house, but I do fully expect him to take care of 95. In a lot of cases, they will still use local crews... VDOT (Virginia Department of Transportation) will handle all of the work on 95 throughout VA, but the costs are covered by the FHWA.

Beyond that, building and maintaining roadways is a necessary part of the delegated powers given to the federal government: to regulate commerce, to declare war, to raise and maintain armed forces, and to establish a post office. These responsibilities are specifically laid out in the Constitution.

[Mik]

The federal also supports the US highways, the interstate predecessors. I like traveling them because you see a lot more and they generally have a lot less traffic. Might be a little slower but that never bothered me.

[LuFins Dad]

@mik said in By the mile:

The federal also supports the US highways, the interstate predecessors. I like traveling them because you see a lot more and they generally have a lot less traffic. Might be a little slower but that never bothered me.

If the road sign is shaped like a shield, then it's a Federal highway.

Otherwise, it's local.

[Renauda]

@lufins-dad said in By the mile:

I'm not getting your question? Intrastate roadways already are and should be the responsibility of local and state authorities, interstate roadways are the responsibility of the federal government.

And I don't the know the details of US federalism. Here the interprovincial highways are built jointly between the federal and provincial governments then maintained by the provincial governments in part through, federal grants. The only highways that are exclusively federal are those traversing through national parks and treaty Indian Reservations.

[Mik]

Pretty much the same here as far as i know. The states bear some of the cost. .

[Renauda]

As it should be.