New Report Reveals Nearly 40 Percent of NHS Highways Fail to Pay for Themselves, Urges More Flexible Funding Model to Support a Multimodal Transportation System

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015.  A new infrastructure report from the Center for American Progress examines the myth that highways pay for themselves while public transportation does not, and reveals that 40 percent of all National Highway System, or NHS, miles fail to generate sufficient user fee revenues to cover their long-term maintenance costs–even when initial construction and inflation costs are removed from the analysis.