Planning & Policy for Highways

The Economic Effects of Interstate Highways

Part 1: The Study’s Already Been Done

Part 2: Rural Counties Lose

Highways Do Not Pay for Themselves

A U.S. PIRG Report, Do Roads Pay For Themselves? Setting the Record Straight on Transportation Funding, concludes that highways do not, and except for a few times in our history, have not paid for themselves, contrary to the claims of highway advocates.