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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by JaRail on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:30PM (#18779197)
On the questions of funding, in the US, interstates are federally funded while local roads are state/city-funded. That's why the interstate system has been so successful compared to highway systems that are more locally-funded, eg Canada.
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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by kodablah on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:58PM (#18779784)
> interstates are federally funded while local roads are state/city-funded

This is not completely true. In some cases interstates are 80/20 federal/state funded, in others its 50/50. Not sure of any states where it is 100% federal funding of interstates.

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