Roads and bridges in the United States have been eroding for decades, but the deeper they fall into disrepair, the less money there is to fix them, reports The Los Angeles Times.
The recession crippled local budgets, cutting the money available for transportation projects, writes Alana Semuels in The Times. As states began to recover economically, the federal government adopted its own mandatory budget cuts via sequestration; and last month, the federal legislation that annually funds transportation projects across the country hit a roadblock of Republican opposition that throttled multibillion-dollar transportation bills in the House and Senate, Semuels notes.
