Pennsylvania's auditor general finds that $4.2 billion that could have gone toward repairing hundreds of structurally deficient bridges around the state has gone to fund State Police operations.
Why else do you think Mayor Pete was talking about a per-mile vehicle tax to pay for infrastructure? Once the technology is in there to track road usage and pay for it on a road-by-road and mile-by-mile basis, that pesky infrastructure is suddenly an asset to be sold, not a liability to be maintained.
Overachieving tryhard finally lands a Very Important Job heading the Dept of Transportation at perhaps its most critical period in history and he does absolutely fuck all with it. My god, the midterms are going to be a bloodbath.
Why else do you think Mayor Pete was talking about a per-mile vehicle tax to pay for infrastructure? Once the technology is in there to track road usage and pay for it on a road-by-road and mile-by-mile basis, that pesky infrastructure is suddenly an asset to be sold, not a liability to be maintained.
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Rather than just paying to maintain the fucking roads, they’ll start writing grants to subsidize the costs of tolls
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Overachieving tryhard finally lands a Very Important Job heading the Dept of Transportation at perhaps its most critical period in history and he does absolutely fuck all with it. My god, the midterms are going to be a bloodbath.
The tech is there already, it's called an odometer.