Local Road Funds Unlikely to Come from General Assembly
Virginia officials doubt Fairfax County will get money for transportation projects in 2013 legislative session.
As officials sat down Tuesday to discuss priorities for the legislature’s fast-approaching 2013 session, the county’s widely publicized road funding woes—a $3 billion need for road projects and improvements over the next decade—took center stage. The county faces a $300 million per year funding shortfall for the next 10 years. But nobody is quite sure where the money will come from. And at Tuesday's joint meeting of county supervisors and representatives from the Virginia State Senate and General Assembly, tidings were grim. “I honestly don’t expect a transportation bill to pass this session,” Del. Vivian Watts (D-39th) said. The Commonwealth’s Secondary Road Program, from which the county used to get $29 million annually, is dry. The …
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Bob Bruhns
12:39 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012
It might help if someone would look at the double price of the Dulles Rail - Silver Line project. We are throwing money away on that project to the tune of $2.5 billion to $3 Billion of overcharge, and then we are paying finance costs on the money we have to borrow to PAY for that overcharge. Nobody seems to care because the game is really about grabbing that money, not stopping the robbery. The … more ›