Ideas on Infrastructure spending

Presidents since at least Thomas Jefferson (Louisiana Purchase any one?) have been spending money on infrastructure. And Jefferson apparently slashed the federal government's spending by 50% from John Adam's last year as president (I guess back then there actually was a difference between the two parties on spending). Never mind both parties use nowadays transportation bills (to be fair they do it with all bills) for earmarks. Thinking deeper about transportation would require spending smarter then our federal government class is really capable of, I fear. Either that or unitary party government. But, the last time we had that under Democrats we got Obamacare and under Republicans the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan. Neither of which were well planned out.