Sell bonds to get the funds.
Pay the bonds off over time.
Who knew?
Where would we be today, if our grandparents had acted this way?
I’m so sick of incompetence.
What we collect in gas taxes would support the bonds.
Why do we need new roads? It isn’t solely due to roads being old. There are many more cars on the roads. And all those cars are being filled with gasoline that is taxed.
The better mileage argument fails, for that reason.
Our elected officials lie their asses off.
And can someone explain how cost supposedly went up 80% when wages have been flat for decades?
Newspapers lie like politicians. If the Chron is saying we need this, I’m saying we don’t. I trust Governor Patrick (Lt Gov, most powerful pol in the state) like I trust P Trump. Sheewww the liberal chron
It's all of those orange cones, I think. They go out mid-November and fester until spring when they may or may not actually work on the road.
Longest line of cones I ever saw actually covered three states on the same road! I-80 near Chicago - the line of cones stretched through IL, IN, and MI. You think they get those for free?
The reason is to provide big lump payouts via big construction programs in election years. Inevitably, the money runs out well before the bonds are paid off, which requires new bonds and higher taxes.
Christie has been better than the previous idiots about this, but it is still NJ. The last tax increase included a provision that gas tax money was to be spent only on transportation.
There's little difference in the amount of corruption in contracting between the two finance methods, but pay-as-you-go doesn't leave debt for the grandkids.
Whether or not you leave bad roads for them depends on the quality of politicans you elect, not the finance method.