"No."

-Beacon Hill-

Best I can do is a “next time take the T” billboard.

Well there is a law saying excess revenue must be returned, and there is no law saying I93 south should be well maintained. That is the literal answer, hopefully you don't mind me being literal for a second.

My point is no one needed the 100 or 200 or even even a thousand. We should have put it on the ballot like a question. Do we want the 3 billion returned or should we fix our infrastructure. This state is fiscally sound, and our infrastructure is bad. Not just 93 but the whole state.

No one needed it? lol ok

Really? Its food for a few days. Or fix the infrastructure for everyone. Don't see the lol but everyone gotta add their 2 cents. Its literally a waste of money. Im not saying it doesn't help. But big picture waste of money.

Sounds like you should start a voter initiative cause that is one way to make this happen. Good luck

Too late. They already gave it back.

Interstate highways are federally funded I believe

Be mad at the gov’t not spending the current tax dollars properly and efficiently.

Amazing, so we will never have a surplus again and you know this somehow?

The biggest issue is the cost of maintaining the roads here. We are literally in the top 5 states for the cost per mile, if not the top 2. Thank the unions and state. It does amaze me how much we pay and just how crappy the worksmanship is.

Have you not been paying attention to the world lately? Surplus is a word we might not use again this decade.

Word edit

>Surplus is a word we might not yours again this decade

Well said (but poorly typed)! ;)

Never said I was an English major.

Have you not been paying attention to the world lately? We live in Massachusetts… Even if there was a pool of $25 billion to fix the roads with the state wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation to mismanage every dime of it. The roads would be left in the same condition but somehow there would be a group of contractors with friends on Beacon Hill that, after “competitive bidding processes” got $$PAID$$

More taxes ain’t the answer. Move the tax money from other areas to more important ones. Most of our tax money we pay in is wasted

Agreed. My point was 3 billion thrown towards something is better then giving 4 million people money. Its helps. But a big project could have been more beneficial to the 4 million. No new tax was needed. We already had it. But we have crooked people running the state so we can't get it done I guess. That seems like a real bull s h I t answer. Anyway back to dodging pot holes

Woah there Mr. Money Bags! Many people needed that and much more.

When looking at the big picture I do agree with you

You never said you were an economics major either

I thought that was implied.

I get it but is a couple hundred really going to make ot brake people? 3billion for roads can help all of us. Big picture. Stop thinking small.

We're wicked sma'ht in MA so one of us is going to point out meaningless spelling /typo mistakes. That is the way. That and it's Reddit. By the way, I did grant you an English degree. You should see it in the mail next week.

Well you said "surplus" so I just assumed you ran one of those Army-Navy stores. ;)

Sounds like elected officials are doing a poor job

Quit electing slimy democrats then Massachusetts

art history?

I know there's a whole other discussion, but now I just want to play "guess what u/fountain19 majored in"

That's not how cities work. Cities set a budget. In this case, Mass DOT would make this part of their request to the governor when he sets the budget. All money that comes in goes to the general fund, unless it is allocated to different parts of the budget (like gas tax revenue, for example). If there is too much money in the general fund, then by mass law it gets refunded to the tax payers.

I have a degree for transportation and logistics management from northeastern class of 1999.

But I just run my own courier service.

Saw this post last night and then drove it this morning to work, no joke it’s like driving on the surface of the moon Stoneham to Medford!

We don't need to throw more money at the problems as enough is already spent on all this stuff. We need to understand why they can't fix the problems with the funding already.

I agree but we need to start somewhere

Yes it does actually. It seems you are the one thinking small for blaming the average citizen for gov misspending.