Throwing money in the ocean.

To those of you who say 'toll the road' or 'buy the land' you need to be careful what you ask for. Dare County is a 'donor' County ot the State. We send millions of more dollars to Raleigh in Revenue than the State spends on Dare County. Regardless of what figure you quote for the last 30 years we have built more roads, repaired more roads, moved more rock off of mountain roads and plowed more snow off roads outside of Dare County then has been spent in Dare County. We have built your Schools and Government buildings, we have help pay the salareis of tens of thousands of State Employees who work all across the State. Dare County has never complained about these monies spent through out the State. What do you have against this money. Did you complain when the forest fire was fought down east last year or in past years in the Mountains. After the Hurricanes that ravaged the mountains several years ago, did you complain about the Emergency Management money spent in those Counties.

Make 12 a toll road to pay the repair cost. Leave the rest of the states taxpayers out of this money flusher.

If those that choose to live there want tio stay then they need to pay for the road. The rest of the state should not have to make good on their risky deciscions. Turn it into a park accessible by boat. Keep the ferries going and save the maintenance costs on the Oregan inlet bridge, which will no longer be needed. Let the folks stay in Rodanthe and Salvo if their property wasn't wiped out. But it will be boat access only.

Let's take the next $30 million, condemn the land and buy it to make it into a state refuge and seashore accessible by boat and some ferry crossing.

It seems the majority of people prefer a bridge, if anything. However, how many politicians actually do what the majority of the people want? It is ridiculous to continue building this road every time a storm comes through, which is quite often, since this area of the state juts out the way it does. Even IF the county made the equivalent in tax dollars, which I highly doubt...is it fair that all of their tax dollars pay for their one road, while the rest of us have to provide taxes for the other 99 counties? I think not. Most of the highway to the beaches have bridges over the intercoastal waterway. It would seem that a permanent "fix" makes much more sense than continuing, storm after storm, repairing this highway. Also, access to this area for the residents and tourists, would be available much sooner than it is now, in times of evacuation. Please, stop wasting North Carolinians tax dollars!!!

This is a crazy waste of money. It's like providing flood insurance for buildings in a floodplain and paying to rebuild over and over and over.

No way does the tax revenue from OBX visitors come close to covering these repair costs. Every driver in NC is subsidizing NC Hwy 12 at the expense of the roads we all use every day.

Let the diehards who choose to live and own business and property in the areas fund it themselves,do not use public funds

Time to quit pumping money into this one. Unless you want to change the entire elevation of the island, you are going to have the same problems. Fixing this road is like raking leaves. Everytime you finish, you have to start all over again.

Well the good news is, once the oceans rise by eighty feet we will not be fixing this road anymore. thank god for global warming.

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