Planning a road trip for Thanksgiving this week? You might want to pay attention to the condition of the highways and bridges. Many are in a sad state of repair, their maintenance wanting for lack of funds. It’s gotten so bad, the state can’t afford to pay for even basic infrastructure fixes. Today, three important players write about our dwindling stream of transportation revenue and how other, competing regions around the country have begun to leave us in the dust.

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Passengers wait at a Delta check-in counter at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport domestic terminal on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, the first day of the Federal Aviation Administration cutting flight capacity at airports during the government shutdown. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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