RT @thecharlier State DOTs: "Our fuel tax revenue is in danger. What shall we do?"
Every Analyst Ever: "You must replace fuel taxes with mileage fees; you should do it soon."
State DOTs: "But that will be controversial."
EAE: "Yes."
State DOTs: "Let's study it some more."
@capntransit@thecharlier Yup. The hidden message is that "normal" people drive and losers need transportation welfare in the form of poorly funded transit.
RT @thecharlier All across the US, state DOTs are telling lawmakers and local officials they don't have money to repair and replace bridges. Meanwhile their highway expansion programs, funded by a deluge of federal money, continue at full speed.
RT @thecharlier One thing we could do to end the practice of creeping capacity increases on our Interstate Highway System would be to disallow use of "replacement" funding to widen bridges and their associated urban freeways.