Don't delay the roads
Published: Tue, Jan. 17, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Tue, Jan. 17, 2006 07:17AM
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closeThose trying to gain political mileage out of fighting the automatic adjustment in the state gas tax need to understand that our roads are in a crisis. It is undisputed that 1) road-building in North Carolina is not keeping up with the growth in traffic, and 2) construction and maintenance costs are growing much faster than the revenue to pay for them. We as a state are already being forced to look at tolls, borrowing money and other methods to pay for the roads that we desperately need -- we don't need further cuts in the limited sources to pay for our roads.
Elected officials (and the trial lawyer from Salisbury who wants to be one) hoping to cut the gas tax need to step up and tell the voters which road projects in their districts they are prepared to have delayed or canceled to make up for their political opportunism.
Richard Adams
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