I agree 100%. Engineers have told me that for many years there has been hoarding of unspent money that DOT always keeps in its pocket to be spent for political reasons that might come up instead of logical priorities. That is probably how they lost federal funds. Another big cost of neglect is that Federal Road standards changed while repairs were delayed and some road beds need to be two or three times as thick with other requirements which greatly increased the cost (not all Hawaii federal roads need to meet the higher standard) or repair because in order to use federal funds, the new federal rules would apply.