It looks like the recently passed $0.16 per gallon gas tax increase over eight years will not be spent on road repair and safety improvements.
The other issue with I-73 and the economic benefit report is that the remainder of the corridor, especially through the Appalachians, is no where close to being built. Will local traffic support the claimed jobs?
The biggest issue with the claimed jobs is the time frame in which those jobs are created. Having spent time in WV, New highways will bring jobs to the area near them (improved transportation always brings jobs to an area), it just often takes 5-20 years for those jobs to actually appear. I do not know what the direction or error in the expected number of jobs is.
Example of increased jobs and the time frame: How long does a two pump gas station that due to the new Highway is now off an exit take to get financing to build a 10 pump service station? Then there is the time to build the complex.