Probably could have , I also think a lot of people forget just how many road crews were around between 2008 and 201011 . In the Bay Area of California , during that time period , during the early hours of the morning there were road crews working every 10 or 12 miles along all the major highways . 6 years later , you would never know , but that ' s the reality of running 2 or 3 million cars on a road day in and day out for 6 years . Bridges are falling apart , levies and dams need to be retrofitted . The exact same people who have been in power for the better part of a decade are in power right now , none of them have done anything about it then , I don ' t see why they will do anything about it now and I ' m honestly not sure if I see that as a problem ATM . Trump ' s infrastructure plan is about the worst thing that could happen to working class American ' s and 4 more years of pot holes just might be a worth price for kicking the can down the road for an actual publicly funded plan .