Ah yes. 50,000 miles of interstates, out of 3,900,000 miles of roads.
3,000,000 of which are locally maintained rural roads.
You kind of made my point for me.
Remind me again how many workers the federal DOT employs for road maintainence ?
Or is *all* their construction and maintainence outsourced to local contractors and departments ?
All the actual federal DOT workers are bureaucrats or road pirates harassing truckers over petty bullshit.
None of them have ever laid actual pavement in modern memory.
And how many of the interstates are paid toll roll roads managed by a state?
The ny thruway, pa turnpike, WV turnpike etc.
A measurable % of interstate roads are directly funded by those who use them