States
compete with each other and should use State tax funds to build, repair and
maintain infrastructure. Most State Tax Dollars go to Healthcare Subsidies,
Education and Government Employees. Pensions for government employees need to
be converted to 401ks. Most State Legislatures
are waiting for the Federal government to solve their problems, but federal
subsidies have quadrupled the cost of infrastructure maintenance. There is very little news about this from the
media.
The
Federal Highway Administration tracks the condition of roads in each State.
From 2000 to 2016, we saw roads and highways deteriorate due to UN Agenda 21
implementation that called for mega-cities to be dependent on public transit and
rural areas to be abandoned with the “Wilding Project”. Transportation funds went to bike lanes,
green space, parks, sidewalks and Amtrak. The most conservative States ignored
UN Agenda 21 as best they could and continued to maintain their roads and
highways. The results are listed by
percentages of bad roads and bad bridges by State. The best States have the
lowest percentages of roads and bridges in disrepair. The worst States are
“Blue States” run by Democrats. See below.
Best
roads by State are indicated with low scores below.
State %Bad Roads %Bad Bridges
Florida 1.3% 2.6%
Kansas 1.3% 5.2%
Nevada 1.3% 1.4%
Wyoming 1.9% 8.2%
Alabama 2.1% 4.3%
Missouri 2.2% 8.6%
N
Dakota 2.2% 10.8%
Kentucky 2.3% 7.1%
Utah 2.4% 2.2%
Tennessee 2.4% 4.3%
Virginia 2.7% 4.6%
Georgia 2.8% 3.3%
Idaho 2.8% 7.0%
N
Mexico 3.0% 5.8%
Oregon 3.1% 5.2%
Arizona 3.1% 1.8%
N
Carolina 3.3% 10.2%
Indiana 3.4% 6.2%
Vermont 3.5% 2.4%
Montana 3.5% 7.4%
Delaware 3.9% 3.9%
Minnesota 4.1% 5.0%
S
Carolina 4.4% 8.5%
S
Dakota 4.6% 10.8%
N Hampshire 4.8%
9.0%
W
Virginia 4.8% 19.9%
Oklahoma 5.3% 11.0%
Texas 5.5% 1.3%
Ohio 5.8% 5.6%
Colorado 5.9% 5.4%
Mississippi 6.0% 9.4%
Connecticut 6.2% 7.2%
Arkansas 6.3% 4.6%
Nebraska 6.4% 8.8%
Illinois 6.9% 8.5%
Pennsylvania 7.1%
16.6%
Maine 7.3% 13.1%
Iowa 7.5% 19.4%
Michigan 7.6% 10.7%
Louisiana 9.1% 13.0%
Maryland 9.2% 5.1%
Washington 10.7% 4.6%
Wisconsin 11.1% 7.4%
New
York 13.4% 10.0%
Massachusetts
15.4% 9.2%
Hawaii 16.1% 6.9%
New
Jersey 16.8% 8.1%
California 16.9% 7.0%
Alaska 18.7% 9.7%
Rhode
Island 24.6% 23.1%
Comments
Government
can’t get out of its own way. When we moved to Atlanta in 1983, the population
of Atlanta Metro was 2.5 million. Interstate I-85 and I-75 ran through the
middle of downtown Atlanta and the I-285 circular bypass was too close to the
town center and was being used for local traffic as well as interstate traffic.
Atlanta needed a grid to allow local commutes from east to west, but failed to
build one.
The EPA
froze highway development in the 1980s because of automobile exhaust pollution,
but other cities continued to build their grids for their highway systems.
As the
Metro Atlanta population doubled from 2.5 million in the 1980s to 5 million in
the 2000s, the gridlock got worse. GA
400 was built to support suburban development north of Atlanta, but it was too
little, too late.
The
Georgia DOT focused on public transit with MARTA, but ridership continued to be
low and is still incompatible with the infrastructure. We have lots of empty
bus and train seats in addition to empty bike lanes, empty multiuse paths,
empty parks and empty sidewalks. UN Agenda 21 implementation of regionalism in
2008 has resulted in billions in malinvestments and an abundance of potholes
and water leaks.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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