>>1690599>it will have interchanges with all the interstates and major routes it crossesWhich is a poor man's substitute for just taking the interstates that go through those cities in the first place.
> its primary use will be gibs, like most other federal spending in the region.
Looking at the map of current interstates and current use, anyone doing port of Los Angeles to Savannah would experience no real benefit from this. Overall use of those EW routes isn't terribly high, and would be lower once traffic to those "obstructing metros" is excluded.
>It would bring business and jobs to extremely poor regions of the country.If its main travel benefit is as a bypass, then it's mostly just shifting traffic from other areas (areas with likely better non-transport economic geography), leading to little net gain. The industries that service the long-distance traveler are low-end, low-value, and low-connection to the rest of that town/county/whatever's economy.
