05-21-2015, 05:59 PM
(05-21-2015, 11:43 AM)Benton Wrote: 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).
You know crazy thought here..... Allow carry over in budgets or a bonus for coming in Under budget.
The roads and bridges boon doggle is a joke . Bid those jobs out to private construction .... And just drop the gov workers.
Stuff like this is why I hate the gov playing a significant role in our lives. When I lived up north, we always cleared our own street when a lot of snow came down because we were more efficient than the gov..... Same with filling holes. I know we weren't supposed to do it but we did it anyway. And I didn't live in the country. I lived in a city.
