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Here are the numbers:

Highway Trust Fund Revenue: $35B
Federal Road Spending: $42B
State Highway/Road spending: $65B

Vehicle Miles Traveled: 3 trillion

So, that amounts to a subsidy of 2.4 cents per mile driven. However, that's not comparing apples to apples. Roads in urban areas, where public transit exists, are much more expensive to build (and probably to maintain) than roads everywhere else. For example, the 495 HOT lanes will cost $2B to construct for 14 miles of highway (which is perhaps a bad example because the majority of that cost is covered by the contractor, but the point is that urban highways are very expensive to build).

by Falls Church on Aug 3, 2011 6:10 pm • link • report

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