The US has 4 million miles of roads, enough to circle the earth 160 times. Over 607,480 bridges in the national bridge inventory and many additional bridges under 20 feet.  Additionally, there are 150,000 miles of rails, still to this day the largest and busiest rail network in the world, 360 ports and ships 1.73billion in goods or 11% of the GDP. Airports in the US transport 640 million passengers and 19.6 billion pounds of goods (2013).  

Over time the US has failed to adapt.  By 2010, America wasn’t even in the top ten for infrastructure competitiveness. 

Top 5  infrastructures around the world 

#1 Hong Kong, #2 Germany, #3 UAE, #4 France, #5 Singapore, #6 Switzerland, #7 Netherlands, #8 UK, #9 Canada….#15 was the US.  

The personal and national costs were high.  Even with one of the highest household earnings, the US spends more on transportation than any other developed nations. Just to give you an idea, Europe spends 13%, with Canada at 14%, Japan at 12% and the US at 17.69% of household earnings.

17.69% to an average household income of $50,054 is  $8,810.00 per family.  

Due to the state of our (The United States) infrastructure this equates to 4.8 billion hours wasted in traffic jams in 2008 which is approximately 3.9 billion gallons of gas. Wasted productivity that directly affects GDP.  

The environmental costs of all of those ideling cars is hard to imagine. In dollars and sense that costs about $200 billion or 1.6% of US GDP in losses each year.