Allen Parrish, executive director with the Alabama Transportation Institute and a professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, said the idea that there will be “radical transportation in road building projects will be tough” because the federal package includes non-traditional infrastructure investments. He added, “You might say $1 trillion will pay for anything. But I don’t think it’s big enough. The problem you run into with road building projects is that it’s complicated, they are hard to do and take years (to complete) and are politically complex. To achieve transformative gains in that space, you have to pour on the money.”