OUT OF STYLE? Wait till they start getting a cash inflow from the toll roads! They are like a Cash Cow!
In Oklahoma, several toll roads were built back in the 1950s with the promise that when they were paid for they would revert to free roads. Many of these were paid off way back in the 1970s and are STILL toll roads. The money is just too good to let go.
Also, a standard road will take decades to build with billions in cost overruns. A toll road will be in in just a few years and then the money flows! Oh how it flows!
I laid sod on the Tulsa-Joplin turnpike when I was 17.