They need to fix the roads in Butner NC

NCDOT does it's best with limited resources to answer needs as well as political pull. They don't decide what they get, and only partly what to do with it. A good example is the Croatan Sound bridge. That was $100 million, but needed because the old one is in bad shape and hurricane evacuation has to be a priority. For many years the Triangle area got more than it's share of road work. Now that other areas are so dilapidated they have to have attention poor old Raleigh is crying they're not being treated fairly. People move here because the area is where the work is. They all insist on driving their cars and there's no support for mass transit. Live with it.

How about using the funds that are supposed to go to roads for roads instead of bailing out the general fund and spending the money on legislators pet pork projects. And hold contractors accountable for the job they do instead of just hiring someone else to repair a faulty paving job? I live just a few miles fron Virginia and paved paths is a good discription for some of the local roads.

Builder, Those paved paved pathes I take in Virginia are not brokenup lile the roads in NC.

Commentator, you appear to be quite articulate and informed. Any knowledge of state tax dollars as a whole? It has been my observation that lots of injustices occur to our state employees. Point being that no state contribution to their retirement (except the legislative and the judicial branches.. lawyers) and minimal wage increases (with the same exceptions). It seems during the current and previous Governors administrations taxes have increased, yet there is never enough money. During the same period corruption and back room dealings are rampant. Our so-called public servants no longer have a spirit of service. Rather they have a spirit of entitlement. I would like to hear your thoughts on while state income (and tax dollars) has increased there is less funds available to actually serve the citizens. Thanks

You know, the more I think about it, it really burns my biscuits when someone has an axe to grind and ignores factual information just for convenience. I made a post containing actual, verifiable numbers and a bit of reasoning and it gets responded to by "needs to wake up" with zero supporting information.

The title transfer tax really doesn't go towards road construction, BTW. More to support DMV ops.

Again just because you wish with all your heart that it is so, doesn't make it that way.

Ah yes. Another conspiracy "theorist". I would suggest you do some research and take a look at the numbers. So, do you think that nationally published numbers on inflation are made up? Do you think that annually reported gas tax revenue etc are made up? Do you know that NC has nearly 80,000 (THOUSAND) miles of road and nearly 200,000 lane miles?

Yep. Obviously I need to wake up. You just don't want to face reality. Sorry.

TheCommentor needs to wake up. The tax money from gas and the highway use tax from title transfer should and probly do over cover the cost of roads.

Guess there's a word limit. My complete thought was:

Another tactic would be to lobby the state to change the apportionment of state and federal funds to favor counties with high growth rates (and greater need for road $$) like Wake, Durham and Mecklenburg instead of the current system.

I’d be the first in line to lobby, but I’m stuck in traffic at the moment…

Ready2Taxi-"What I object to is the state making only the southern quarter of the loop a toll road" The existing stretches of I-540 were designed and built under totally different circumstances than we face today. As TheCommentor stated, raw material and construction costs for transportation projects has far exceeded inflation and expectation over the past five years. NCDOT has been above board in stating that, given these increases and the expected inflow to NCDOT from state and federal funds, the southern legs of the loop would not be able to be traditionally financed for the next 10 to 20 years. Project timelines could be shortened with non-traditional financing, hence the push for toll roads.

We, the consumer, are not willing to wait 20 years, so we’ve got to be willing to pay the price in some form or fashion to get the work accomplished.

Another tactic would be to lobby the state to change the apportionment of state and federal funds to favor counties with high growth

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