Are our roads getting worse?
We just finished our 4,000+ mile snowbird annual adventure, which left us feeling like our roads and interstates are worse than ever. It doesn't look like our government is able to keep up at all wit...
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gbopp wrote:Tom/Barb wrote:
But the toll roads in the US, There is no excuse, they were meant to be self supporting.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is required to give the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation $450 MILLION every year.
Turnpike tolls are going up and Pennsylvania has the highest gas tax.
But the roads are getting worse.
It makes you wonder where all the money goes..
450M is chump change and would build about 10-12 miles of new 4 lane highway if you were lucky on flat terrain with no bridges or interchanges. The PA turnpike blows much more than that building unneeded screen walls, along with the commissions nepotism, bid rigging, and 50+ year record of corruption. They should eliminate the turnpike commission and blend it into PENNDOT and that's no peach either but is the lesser of two evils.
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