Posted on 06/25/2013 12:53:14 PM PDT by servo1969
Glad it’s still there. Used to cheer me up every time I drove by, especially on the way up from visiting friends in (shudder) Sacramento or San Francisco.
Haven’t been to CA in about 7 years now. They have to come and visit me, I can’t handle going down there any more.
They are welcome to go as far as I am concerned. I am an engineer that works with the transportation formula a lot. That is where the money comes from and where it goes to pay for building and repairing roads. It is not just gas tax. The tax you pay on cars and a number of other things go into the pot. Most of the money comes from the urban areas.
There is also a complicated formula that divides up the money. Some goes to the State, some to counties, and some to Cities. That formula is weighted to give more money to the rural parts of the State than the urban parts of the State. The urban areas carry the rural areas.
If they want to go, I applaud them.
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