Instead of building more roads, we should be providing the public with more public transportation options….But either way, the 40 Billion promised is probably not enough.

From Las Vegas Review Journal:

Bulldozers shut down the Strip to protest a lack of highway funding

Construction equipment workers and business leaders are calling on the federal government to reauthorize transportation funding for road construction, including critical improvements to Interstate 15 in Las Vegas, and to spur a jobs recovery….

Following a 10 a.m. rally today in the Las Vegas Convention Center parking lot at Paradise Road and Convention Center Drive, a caravan of idle heavy construction equipment will parade down the Strip….

…The current bill authorizes $40 billion a year for spending on highway projects throughout the country. Congress has deferred action on a 50 percent increase in spending….