America Needs More Toll Roads Even With Federal Bonanza

Physical infrastructure — highways, bridges, ports, internet servers, potable water — provides the backbone of an economy, even in an increasingly digital and virtual world. Most people recognize that it makes the nation more competitive and efficient and support investment in these projects. That backing begins to fade when it comes down to who’s going to pay for it and in whose backyard it will end up.

President Joe Biden’s administration has supercharged the push to improve and expand US infrastructure with the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and to a lesser extent the green-economy bill and the Chips and Science Act.