[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Never enough, never enough, never enough . . .

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Don W]

Stop diverting highway finds to buses and other non-highway purposes. Use the tax collected FROM road users FOR THE ROADS. It’s not rocket surgery!

[cymbeline]

“Never enough, never enough, never enough . . . “

Correct.

Maintaining what we’ve got is one thing, expanding our road system is another.

I’m not a public transit cheerleader but building more and more expensive limited-access roads, especially through populated areas, has got to end somewhere.

[BobL]

In the Leftist world, this is called ‘coordinated action’...put the word out to people, at ALL levels, to bitch about the same thing, at the same time, and that $$$$ can only fix the problem.

They do run an IMPRESSIVE operation!

[Viking2002]

I've been driving that stretch of I-85/I-77 every Christmas for 22 years, and they only now have that piece of the 85/77 interchange at the top end of Charlotte finished. That drag between there and Statesville is still a train wreck. And every year I tell my wife that there must be kickbacks or other shenanigans going on, because there's no way in hell it takes over two decades to complete what a good contractor could do in a couple of years. But what do you expect when you see one guy on a backhoe and nine guys leaning on their shovels, watching? That tax money is trickling down to those road workers as a nice take-home, after everybody above them spoons a little off the top.

FTA:

'The problem, as groups like the N.C. Chamber see it, is that the largest source of the N.C. DOT’s budget comes from the motor fuel tax—36.1 cents per gallon—and accounts for 54 percent of the total N.C. DOT revenue. As inflation grows and cars get more fuel efficient, the comparative purchasing power of that tax gets smaller and smaller.'

'The result is that drivers who pay less for gasoline aren’t chipping in money to the Highway Fund comparable to the damage their vehicles cause the roads.'

IOW, while you're feeling smug about driving your little electric Nissan Yapadoo and going 'green', you're gonna get penalized for doing it through higher gas and transportation taxes (notice the accusatory tone above).

[Tax-chick]

Wow, this is so unexpected.

[cranked]

Lulz.

When I drive into N.C. and see the sign that says, ‘Welcome to North Carolina,’ I always think to myself it should read: ‘Welcome tot he Twilight Zone’....just saying.