President Trump’s infrastructure plan still lacks detail, but one thing seems certain. It will not be just one more nationalized road-building bill. Nor will it continue the harmful tradition of the federal government calling all the shots and providing all the funds.

Trump wants to “build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways and waterways all across our land.” But in his own words from his State of the Union address, “every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments and, where appropriate, tapping into private-sector investment.”