Step one: eliminate federal gas taxes and highway subsidies. I swear the local cities can’t fill a pothole without filing for a federal grant and waiting a year for it to be approved. By then it costs ten times as much to do the repair. Just let the states and cities charge that tax and pay for road work quickly.
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The taxes on transportation industry should be self funding. There’s more than enough if the politicians would keep their paws off
More Trains, obviously.
Government doesn’t seem to calculate the maintenance costs when they build roads.
I think I see the problem right there.
It’s not a transportation problem but a problem with politicians redirecting tolls and gas taxes into other areas. AAA has sued and won cases against agencies who broke their own laws when they redirected toll money to non-road projects.
Only in America can something that costs $50,000 per foot to build be called a “freeway”.
No more bike lanes and hiking paths.
No more silly lone stars on the overpasses in Texas.
just my opinion.
Do the roads crumble because they are poorly engineered and constructed?
Put Peter Buddha-judge in charge of the Department of Transportation.
He has a lot of experience related to filling holes...
Here in Seattle, voters approved a light rail system that was supposed to take five years to build at $1.7 billion.
Eleven years later, the price tag is over $10 billion, and completion is still two years away.
Oh, and the Seattle Big Dig that got a lot of publicity when the excavator got stuck underground for 18 months?
That was NOT even part of Light Rail.
The Big Dig was part of the solution to an earthquake threatened 50 year old elevated roadway.