White House: $53 billion for high speed rail system!

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/excess.cfm

Not to deviate from the OP subject ,but the wheels do turn slow when it comes to big gov.

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Originally Posted by esp1986

The modern highway system in this country was built in the 1950s, when Eisenhower was president. He saw the Autobahn in Germany during WWII and thought it was a great idea, so he modeled our highway/interstate system after that. Long after the Depression.

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It goes further back than that. As a young officer right after WW One, Ike was part of the experimental strategic movement of a column army vehicles over a significant distance. He experienced the roads at the time and felt that the US needed a strategic highway system of good roads.