Posted on 05/24/2019 4:47:01 PM PDT by lightman
When the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) was audited recently, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale discovered that more than $4.25 billion in Motor License Fund money that was supposed to go toward the repair, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of roads and bridges had been transferred to the state police, beginning in the 2012-13 fiscal year, Transportation Today News reports.
The General Assembly, reportedly, has not put a cap on the amount of money being transferred to the state police, having transferred $789.6 million during the 2017-18 fiscal year.
“More than 2,800 state-maintained bridges across Pennsylvania are structurally deficient, and our bridges average over 50 years in age—beyond what they were designed to last,” DePasquale said, according to the news agency. “That $4.25 billion could have cut that list in half, and if PennDOT could use all of the gas tax money for roads and bridges, we could get that number to zero in about five years.”
Pennsylvania’s gas tax is 57.6 cents per gallon of gas, the highest in the nation, but people are frustrated with paying that much and not seeing the roads and bridges being repaired.
Ping.
Yeah, my home state. PennDOT is horrible to work with. Only SEPTA sucks more...
Somebody has to pay for the police state...… sure is the way it seems in NYS!
I literally can’t believe the # of trooper I see roaming around compared to 20 years ago.
The money is collected to maintain roads, but it’s being used for something else?
That’s lying by politicians.
Why are they lying?
They need to look and see where the money offset from this is going.
My guess is to Democrats and the Democrat Party.
Governor Rendell made a deal long ago, forcing the PA Turnpike to pay PennDOT $450 million every year.
This is how Democrat politicians pay off their union buddies.
Business as usual.
Just the reverse here.
When Ed $pendell was first elected Governor he wasted no time in assigning the State Police to work the Interstate highways in Philly.
Then when he got the Casinos that his Philly mob handlers wanted another large contingent of PSP was pulled to babysitting these “Gaming” installations.
Finally, more and more Boroughs are ditching their own police departments (or regional PDs) figuring that free (PSP) is the best deal around.
Bottom line: You can drive 70-80 mph on PA Interstates with impunity. Subject only to the laws of physics.
The last three weeks, I have seen cops all over I-476 and I-76.
I guess they need to raise the gas tax some more.
Some criminal bodies in PA need to go to prison.
Bottom line: You can drive 70-80 mph on PA Interstates with impunity. Subject only to the laws of physics.
Ummm, have you seen a Pennsylvania Interstate lately? Lets just say they have more craters then the moon
Willie Sutton was wrong. The real money is not in the banks.
So, any word from the Coppers as to what it was spent on ?
We need to do an audit in California.
Only one way to fix this...vote more democrats into office.
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Road funds are always diverted in other things that doesn’t have anything to do with roads... Connecticut’s governor is trying to get tolls, because the gas taxes went into the general fund to be wasted.
SEPTA = Society for the Elimination of Passenger Trains Altogether!
We ALWAYS win the title of crappiest roads in the nation. Even though I swear the PA Turnpike in our part of the state goes a mere 3-5 years between resurfacing jobs.
from ‘shovel-ready’ to shoveling it into pensions?
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