Happy 60th Birthday, Interstate Highway System! You Look Awful

We wish we could say you look good for 60 years old, but real talk: You do not. Sure, you've grown--when President Eisenhower authorized you in 1956, you were just a glimmer of asphalt. Look at you now! Fully 47,662 miles of roads, bridges, ramps, and curves, the meshwork that defined American post-war expansion and exceptionalism. The Department of Transportation estimates that by 2030, you might have an annual 86 billion funding gap--and that's just to keep your flabby highways and bridges functioning. Actually improving the darn things could cost up 150 billion per year.