What is going on with American transportation and infrastructure?

[pbrower2a]

The next big economic downturn will feature big expenditures in infrastructure, much as was so in the 1930s. The George Washington Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the original (now replaced) Trans-Bay Bridge, and Boulder (now Hoover) Dam were Depression-era big projects. Big construction projects hire huge numbers of workers out of unemployment and devour huge quantities of steel, concrete, and glass. 

There is a large number of big infrastructure projects awaiting funding and votes. Michigan alone could stand to transform I-94 west of Ann Arbor from a tricky old four-lane freeway into a calmer six-lane expressway and re-engineer the tricky 69-94 cloverleaf interchange into a directional interchange. We could use the next generation of railroads. Urban transit  (could Atlanta use a subway?) almost asks for itself.

I wonder if a bridge from Long Island to Connecticut makes sense.   

[pbrower2a]

Obama didn't use his brief chance to pass a major infrastructural revival and this is the end result.

He pushed Obamacare first.

The Trump agenda is privatization to monopolistic profiteers in return for what in many cases might best be described as maintenance.