This is the major reason I chose to move to a semi-rural place in NC. I get paid a lot less, but I also have a lot less grief from these kinds of things. NC really feels inferior to places like CA and NY (there being so many expatriates from those places here) and desperately wants to look urbane and sophisticated.
Thing is, most Carolinians couldn’t care less: it’s totally a governing and chattering class thing. So, they push transit and trains nobody wants. Meanwhile, potholes accumulate faster than they can fill them and filling potholes is ridiculously cheap.
Building the freeways they’ve neglected is a bigger issue of course.
Interesting because there are other areas of NC with good roads and highways and light traffic. Farms make for lower population density and less traffic.
Um, maybe it’s the backward, little, po- dunk roads? Can’t wait to get out of here and back to Phoenix. Hell, our sides roads in Phoenix can handle more traffic than any highway here.
Turns out that despite all the porkulus money and tax increases they’ve pulled in Durham over the years, the City of Durham is going to put a $20 million bond issue on the ballot in November for street repaving...the interest of which will add $11 a year to the property taxes of the average homeowner. That’s on top of the $38 extra a year from the property tax increase that council passed, without voter input, to cover mass transit expansion originally paid for by 2009 porkulus funds—no porkulus money in 2010, so they have to get it from the local taxpayer. But, they pinky-swear that after this, they’ll be able to set aside $5 million annually to keep the streets up once they get the county $20 million further in debt, really, cross their heart!
It never ends. They could’ve repaved every street in this town if they’d put the existing tax money toward things like that instead of “diversity programs” (read: reparations toward the large militant black community here) and “green space” and other liberal BS. As it is, the bond issue will probably pass, not just because this place is infested with tax-and-spend racist “gimme mine” liberals, but because the streets here truly are wretched and do need to be repaved. They’ve got us over a barrel.
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Well, we would have a lot less traffic if all these Northeastern liberals quit moving here.....