Pay per Mile tax for Oregon

[Benton]

(05-21-2015, 11:25 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The way those funds are allocated is definitely a frustrating thing to look at. Just on the municipal level I get irritated because of roads being repaved that don't really need it, but then you can look at the road in front of my parents which does need it and hasn't been repaved in 20 years.

Yup.

The town I live in has a very busy street that's about a mile lone. It gets repaved every other year. It's been widened twice in the last 6 years and next year they will add additional lanes. They keep working on it because the county always has extra road money to blow — if you don't spend it, you don't get that much next year. On the flipside, there's a 10-15 mile stretch of interstate that for over a decade was unusable on one lane because it was so bad (I24 between the last stop in Kentucky and the Tennessee line).