Marco_Memes t1_jebp3ie wrote
Reply to comment by Thiccaca in A new report found that Mass. has the highest GDP per capita in the country and is among the states least dependent on federal dollars. by truthseeeker
It’s because they don’t make enough money to pay for their maintenance, and the repair costs are so high that it gets kicked down the road. So you end up with a bunch of toll free roads slowly falling apart because they can’t afford maintenance, because their toll free nature removes any revenue streams. If you want better roads what we need to do is convert highways to toll roads and invest in the T so less people drive on them, which lessens their use, which makes them last longer, which saves money on maintenance.
Thiccaca t1_jebpnn2 wrote
MA has the second highest cost per mile for road construction in the US. It is literally twice what it costs to build in Hawaii.
HAWAII....
Where literally everything has to be shipped in.
Wonder who is hoovering up all that cash.
Marco_Memes t1_jecglge wrote
Probably the idiots in charge? We all know the T is run by incompetent fools, but that doesn’t make mass transit a bad thing to invest in bc once you have some mass firings you’ve got the problem fixed. Either way their always expensive, that’s why the roads are bad EVERYWHERE. Every state complains about the roads because even where it’s cheap it’s still to expensive
Thiccaca t1_jechbsm wrote
MA roads are Alabama bad though.
And yeah, mass transit is great. Sadly, nobody on Beacon Hill wants it.
CableStoned t1_jecr5di wrote
Never mind the impracticality of transferring enough of the entire state’s driving to MBTA stops to offset our road damage.
Thiccaca t1_jecsaw6 wrote
Unless the system was expanded and made frequent and affordable. Oh, and made to go above 7 mph.
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