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Texas has 13.5 million drivers. So we are paying for 3,300 miles of new superhighway a year... with that math.
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The cost to build an average urban road of 8 total lanes for 12 miles is 6.5 million bucks a mile. The cost of building a superhighway tollroad is much more than $6.5mm/mile.
If you drive 100k a year on a toll way and get 25 mpg, you will pay $1600 a year (in Texas for state, fed, and local taxes). This means that your highway taxes will pay for a whopping .00025 miles of highway or 1.3 whopping feet.
Texas has 13.5 million drivers. So we are paying for 3,300 miles of new superhighway a year... with that math.
Very few of them drive more than 40k per year. Not all the taxes go to highway construction and maintenance...the gov skims a bunch of it.
There are almost 80,000 miles of highways in Texas.
•Centerline miles: 79,535 composed of:
•Interstate Highways (IH): 3,233
•U.S. Highways (US): 12,102
•State Highways (SH): 16,199
•Farm to Market Roads (FM, RM, UR): 40,985
They have to be maintained, upgraded, or replaced. A new overpass does not add an inch to a highway. There are wages.
My point earlier, which I did not make well, was that if all the highway taxes that a high mileage driver might pay in a year when only to highway construction, you wouldn't even make it to the first yard.
And my figure was not for a super highway. Rather it was for a stop-and-go urban road that was at one time a rural Farm to Market....no access roads and no bridges.