If states would use road money for roads and stop using it to fund the pension plans for lazy govt workers roads would be tip top.
If the roads and bridges were operated as a utility, in PA they would be under the thumb of the state's public utility commission which regulates gas, electric and other utilities in this state. It also controls the rates utilities charge consumers.
This state's PUC has never met a rate increase it didn't like. I can see it now. Under the PUC, every year there would be an increase in taxes, tolls and fees ostensibly to fund the improvement and maintenance of the "infrastructure." But the roads and bridges will still be in sorry shape and the money will still go to the bureaucrats and those government pension plans.
Um...no. Bad idea indeed.