Why are so many rest stops closed?
I'm heading west from NC on my way to Los Angeles along I-40. I've noticed that about 30% of the rest stops are closed. Why is that? Is it because of budget cuts, restoration, abuses by travelers? ...
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bgum wrote:I just looked it up and found out that rest areas are 100% funded by the state and not the federal gas tax. State fuel taxes can and have risen with inflation and are levied on both the per gallon and percentage of cost. Looks like the federal gas tax is irrelevant to this discussion.
The federal gas tax was last raised in 1993. Those taxes are not indexed to inflation. Inflation has gone up 65 percent ...
