Look for this idea to be roundly debated as the government scrambles to find ways to solve the national debt problem and maintain our nationalhighwaysystem.
The National Defence Highway Act actually is very interesting because the entire system of interstate highways was developed under the Eisenhower administration.
The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate HighwaySystem launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
This bill should maintain - or preferably increase - current levels of funding, provide strong federal leadership for national transportation priorities, protect current assets and expand system capacity, retain the user fee principle for federal highway and transit financing, and expedite the process of transportation project review and approval.