Re: Survey: Americans prefer tolls over taxes

On Jul 31, 9:20 am, John Lansford <jlnsf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Larry G <gross.la...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A Washington Post analysis of the delayed and canceled road projects
throughout Northern Virginia, including lane widening and traffic-
calming measures, shows that at least $67.7 million worth of road
projects are slowing down or have been scratched because of the
state's June budget decision to focus on existing primary road
projects that receive matching federal money.

"This is the perfect storm we've been talking about for years," said
Kathy Ichter, Fairfax County's transportation director. "There's a
false perception out there that we have all of these new construction
projects, but that's only the primary roads already in the pipeline.
We have no new projects in the pipeline, and now you're going to start
to feel it.""

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR201...

$67 million is chump change, even for projects involving widening
roads and traffic calming.  If you're adding a lane to an existing
road, that can run about $5 million/mile not including R/W. That
amount could easily be eaten up by 3 or 4 projects. One traffic
calming project can easily cost over $1 million depending on what is
needed.

and it's for a region with a million people
.