The Texas transportation funding fiasco can sometimes rival Congress'. The different dynamic in the Lone Star State is that lack of funds repeatedly also becomes the rationale for using private toll road funding that often wouldn't make sense if more properly viewed from the standpoint of low-cost financing or transportation policy. For a recent Texas Tribune op-ed on that problem, you can read: http://www.tribtalk.org/2014/10/05/the-trouble-with-toll-roads-in-texas/