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Good job fellow South Carolinians! Looks like we stopped the threat of a gas tax hike for this year. And since 2016 is an election year, there's very little chance the legislature will bring it back up next year as well. And from what I hear, the campaign against the tax hike was led by the good people of the upstate. Congrats to all
don't care about building new ones or making them better but can we at least keep em free from debris? Spent 7 years as a driver in Ohio and maybe had to get new tires twice. I've had to patch, replace, etc.... tires every year since I've been down here. And that's been 10 years!!!! Just had to patch a tire this morning because I hit yet ANOTHER F&*()ING nail in our wonderful roads. Holy S&*T rednecks stop throwing garbage on to the streets and roads.
don't care about building new ones or making them better but can we at least keep em free from debris? Spent 7 years as a driver in Ohio and maybe had to get new tires twice. I've had to patch, replace, etc.... tires every year since I've been down here. And that's been 10 years!!!! Just had to patch a tire this morning because I hit yet ANOTHER F&*()ING nail in our wonderful roads. Holy S&*T rednecks stop throwing garbage on to the streets and roads.
I've lived here for 16 years and have only had 1 or 2 problems with running over nails. No worse than where I lived at before I moved here. But yeah, there should be (and there are) hefty fines for anyone that litters on the highway. That crap is not cool.
BTW, I don't understand why anyone in Columbia would claim we need a gas tax hike for our roads. They had a $400M budget surplus that could have easily gone towards fixing our roads if they really cared about fixing them.
I will take the road down the middle of the issue.
First, if the state has budget surplus that could be used for transportation improvement projects, then it should be used for those purposes. If people want to pay more for gas, drive to the highest priced gas station or fill up in Georgia or North Carolina. If higher gas prices in recent years are taken into consideration, I would be campaigning for lower gas prices.
Second, transportation improvement projects should be balanced between maintenance and construction. Maintaining the roads should not require much funds. Road construction projects should be done by priority and done right the first time. Reconstructing the interchanges of Interstates 20, 26 and 126 are important. Adding a turn lane on Roper Mountain Road and North Batesville Road instead of widening the roads to four lanes and adding roundabouts on North Highway 101 and North McElhaney Road in Greer and on Woodruff Road at Lee Vaughn Road in Simpsonville are examples of bad planning and engineering. They would necessitate future projects to correct them and widen the corridors to accommodate more traffic; therefore, costing more funds.
Given that the roads bill just raises the fuel tax without actually allocating any of it to repair the roads, don't expect anything to change. They will find a way to misappropriate whatever revenue they bring in. Ask Senator Leatherman how!
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