The reason for the US highway system?

[m.knox]

So why did cities help build the expressways that would so profoundly decimate them? The answer involves a mix of self-interested industry groups, design choices made by people far away, a lack of municipal foresight, and outright institutional racism.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-cities-history

Sometimes one needs to read this left wing stuff just to see how crazy the left actually is.

In the mean time - MORE INFRASTRUCTURE spending... lol.