Bent crude tops 60 a barrel
Not sure it's a technical issue but, with Bent crude on the rise, pump prices will surely climb as well making it more expensive to enjoy our pastime of RVing. We may be back to conservative measur...
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SidecarFlip wrote:
Not sure of all the aspects. My wife is, she's a Township Official and a member of MTA. I only know what she tells me and I haven't studied it in depth. In as much as we live on a dirt road, we are already there....
'Nice roads' are pretty non-existent in Michigan anyway, but then the entire country's infrastructure is falling apart, not just here....
I spent half my career at MiDOT and still work at both the state, county and local level on the private side, so I'm pretty familiar but it's a very complicated formula and I couldn't explain it all. Your local politicians are the ones who came up with it, so... Suffice it to say, lane miles is only one part of the calculation.
There has always been a battle over how to distribute the money. MTA has a clear agenda (as they should being the township association), they will always present the split as being unfair to them. Since most rural townships own few if any roads (the county typically owns the roads and has a different cut of the pie), the road issue is dominated by the needs of the urban townships from the MTA point of view.
I do agree with the last part (I'll admit to a bit of bias but it's still true). We've let infrastructure fail and improved efficiency of vehicles while good in the general sense has under cut the ability to address this since gas taxes are per gallon taxes and fewer gallons bought mean fewer dollars to fix the roads.
