Highways to Nowhere: The 7 Most Ridiculous New Roads Being Built In America

At the Infrastructurist, Yonah Freemark blasts the Ohio River Bridges Project, and offers this warning:

At a White House gathering last week, both Barack Obama and Joe Biden warned America’s governors not to squander stimulus funds on ill-conceived infrastructure projects. “Six months from now,” Biden said, “if the verdict on this effort is that we’ve wasted the money, we built things that were unnecessary, or we’ve done things that are legal but make no sense, then, folks, don’t look for any help from the federal government for a long while.”

Nowhere is this warning more pertinent than in building new roads. Misguided road building can encourage sprawl, make communities less livable, and devastate the local environment. We looked at shovel-ready new highway projects across the country that are either getting stimulus money or could potentially get some and found seven that, in Biden’s words, “make no sense.”

Read what he has to say, and also find out which other regional megaprojects make the cut for the worst of the worst.

The AP is running a story about the Feds contemplating moving from a gasoline tax to a miles travelled tax. This is the worst idea, ever. Everything we're working for is hurt by this.