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I live in Georgetown, TX, which is approximately 30 miles north of Austin.  It is located on I-35. When we moved to TX nearly 40 years ago Georgetown had a population of approximately 5,000 souls.  Today it is just shy of 50,000 people. One of the factors that has contributed to its growth is a good road system, i.e.  I-35, TX 29, TX 195, and the recently opened TX130, which is a toll road being paid for by the users. Without these roadways it is unlikely that Georgetown would have grown to the extent that it has.   It is true, as has been argued by others, that highways don't pay taxes. Moreover, they took some land off the tax rolls, although most of it in Texas was poor farm land that generated little in the way of property taxes.  With the building of the highways came hundreds of businesses in and around Georgetown. These businesses pay more in taxes (income, sales, inventory, property, etc.) than ever could have been generated from the property that was used to construct the highways.
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