Toll roads, toll bridges. Return 100% of infrastructure obligations to the states and give them the gas tax money, no need to bring it to Washington so it can be skimmed for pork projects.

Except it is of national interest to have a working highway system and for all the states to have a roughly similar economic outlook. "Pork projects" are a good surplus recycling mechanism.

It seems like putting a halt on new infrastructure for certain period would encourage higher density development along existing infrastructure.

It also seems like the kind of thing that is unlikely to happen.

This is an awful idea that has been tried before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_disinvestment#Planne...

To be clear, I wasn't talking about not maintaining existing infrastructure which seems to be what the wiki entry you linked is about. I was talking about a freeze in new infrastructure specifically to allow for existing infrastructure to be better maintained and better utilized.