Ray LaHood: 'America is one big pothole'

The federal government’s failure to fix and expand the nation’s decrepit roadways, expected to be overflowing this Memorial Day, will result in a highway system so broken that the expected holiday gridlock will be an everyday occurrence within 10 years, according to reports and experts.

“What is Labor Day and Memorial Day traffic now, in 10 years, will be everyday traffic” on routes like the Boston-to-Miami I-95, warned former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, whose Building America’s Future group has teamed with the U.S. Travel Association to bring new pressure on the president and Congress to OK a 10-cent gas tax hike and approve the languishing highway bill.