Road Conditions/Tax Revenue Distribution?

rehoppe wrote:
From what I'm seeing here in Colorado, I'm thinking we need to start making some noise regarding the conditions of roads and bridges.

There is currently a large effort in Denver regarding the distribution of 'Pot Tax Monies'.

Wouldn't it be great if they'd spend a large chunk of the revenue on infrastructure? Instead of giving away our roads to foreign companies..... since we don't seem to pay enough taxes to pay for them??? i.e. Colorado Highway 36, going to an Australian Corp......to become a 'Toll Road'....

It's my opinion that we don't need more regulation as much as we need bridges that aren't 'fall down' ready?

Thoughts anyone?

Agreed: The poor condition of this countries roads and bridges is nationwide and a outrage that the American public has not addressed, yet.

An Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory showed that 65,605 were classified as "structurally deficient" and 20,808 as "fracture critical." Of those, 7,795 were both — a combination of red flags that experts say indicate significant disrepair and similar risk of collapse.