You point out how rural people need to plead and fight for roads nowninder political monopoly, and then tell me we need that political monopoly? Are you sure you are making the right argument? We had fraight and passenger rail once connecting towns to urban centers.l before the state and federal governments assumed responsibility for highways. Now we have bad roads and less rail. You ignore both the history of road construction and the inherent distortions of monopoly to appeal to the status quo.