Any federal or state level reform would start with a recognition that there is a difference between a road and a street. Roads provide high-speed connections between places and are not used to induce growth or development along a corridor. Streets are platforms for building wealth within a place, which is a hyper-local undertaking. The federal government should fund roads only; there should not be any federal spending building, expanding, or maintaining streets. All supporting documentation, environmental reviews, economic analysis, and the like should reinforce this shift in approach.
