Comments on: America's Highways Hurting

30 Percent Of Roads Across The Country Are In Poor Or Mediocre Condition

[djberson]

Concrete highways last much longer, but are more expensive initially. (but cheaper in the long run).

[pepperp1]

When you are spending 1O Billion a month on Iraq and 2 Billion a month on Afghanistan how do you pay for road repair, besides the contractors that would repair the roads and the workers are probably Dems and poorer so why divert the tax money from the Repug war profiteers is the Rove Shrub motto.

[omega39-2009]

This looks like a good excuse to privatize. Create the problem by inaction, blame the failure on government, pay some politically connected company exorbitant sums of money, end up with roads in worse shape than when you started.

[olebd]

There's plenty of money to repair roads. PA is a good example of how to waste it. Where is all the lottery and/or casino money going? Not the roads, not education, not healthcare. It is simply corruption and greed, lining the wallets of those who need it the least. The new tacttic of local and state govenrments is to always cry poor when being questioned as to why somehting isn't getting done.

[bluestardad]

but we are building roads in Iraq?

[brianbwb-2009]

So why are road repairs stuck in a rut? The cost of materials used to fix pavements has shot up 33 percent in the past three years and the 18.4 cents per gallon gas tax that helps fund highway repairs hasn%u2019t been raised in 14 years.

Sort of like wages of the average workers compared to the cost of living.

Gasoline tax has not gone up, but consumption has, and sharply. This woulds more than offset the need to pay more for materials and labor, but the truth is the money has been embezzled by greedy politicians, giving sweetheart deals to their private contractor friends, who then cut not only the corners, but even the center, the repairs are temporary only, and not up to standard. Road repair was a problem even before prices rose, for the same reason, corruption.

[tylenol6]

It is time for our IDIOTS in Congress start thinking
about OUR COUNTRY!!!!!! Wait till the Super NAFTA
highway starts.. We will have trucks from Mexico
and Canada driving trucks with no tire treads driving dangerously on our highways killing innocent
americans because of our corrupt government has allowed this NAFTA to take place. We need to start
taking care of our country and stop raping America
and giving all the taxpayers money to other countries like our dictator Bushite is doing.

[hypnotoad72]

But to raise the tax to cover infrastructure we all use, even those who offshore and insource illegals, is eeeeeeeeeeevil.

Forgive me for being a Cynical Gen X'er. :) I'll be happy and optimistic tomorrow. Mondays are meant for cynicism.

[feelfree1]

Those who think that the hundreds of billions of dollars squandered in the illegal war of aggression against Iraq, would have been better spent on repairing our own infrastructure, must hate freedom.