I live right next door to Virginia —in Maryland, and our tax and spedn Governor M.O.M. just steals the taxes from the highway funds and uses them somewhere else (Probably Casa De Maryland and to pay for the Mexican College fund)then screams for more.
We pay more than enough to fix the roads if it were used for the roads.
Hope Va. makes out better.
Look at the costs of public transportation that most Americans never use. I’ve read that 25% rider funding is considered good. Some do better but others like the Detroit people mover do far worse. (its rider funded at a rate of around 7%)
A few years back, Karl Levin was seeking $2 million from highway funds to save a section of Tiger stadium. His justification for wanting highway funds was that a bus stop would be incorporated into it.
Nancy Pelosi got millions in transportation funding for a parking app so people could find empty parking spaces with their phones.
For decades, $.02 out of every $.05 in Missouri fuel taxes were redirected to other “deserving” state agencies. Two years ago, citizens of Missouri put a stop to this in a ballot question.
Other states can do this.