Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads

An anonymous reader writes: During a recent Urban Land Institute talk, the director of the Iowa Department of Transportation, Paul Trombino, told an audience that the road network in Iowa was probably going to "shrink." Calling for fewer highways isn't what you'd normally expect from a government transportation official, but since per capita driving has peaked in the U.S., it might make sense for states to question whether or not to spend their transportation budgets on new roads.

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Re:"Per capita?"

[CrimsonAvenger]

Note that, absent immigration, US population is declining.

Note also that if current trends continue, we should see population declines in many States even if we include immigration.

Iowa, being essentially a big farm, is one of those States ripe for population decline sooner rather than later.