Forty-five years ago this week: “There are enough new interstate highways in this country,” said state Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colorado Springs and the time has come to stop adding new projects and to start taking care of the existing highways.”
Hefley even suggested that the interstate highway completion program should be discontinued because it encouraged “projects that are not cost-effective. It distorts state highway budget priorities.”
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“The implied guarantee by Congress to provide funds to finish the interstate system,” Hefley said, “encourages states to propose grandiose, expensive, magnificent projects that appear to be monuments to the
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