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FeedFeb 9, 201701:18 PMTransportation Matters
with Debby Jackson
When it comes to state roads, just fix them already
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The audit points out that we have arrived at our abysmal situation through a steady deterioration over the last decade. How do we begin to climb back to respectability when it comes to our transportation infrastructure? That is the bottom line.
The answer simply cannot be that we use the problems pointed out in the audit as a justification to sit on our hands and watch our roads go from bad to worse.
George Washington once famously stated, “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
Just fix it.
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Debby Jackson assumed the role of executive director of the Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin after more than 15 years with the organization. In addition to her vast experience in association management and transportation advocacy, Jackson has a background in business. She leverages the breadth and depth of her professional experience, along with her knowledge of the membership and mission of TDA, to be a strong voice for robust transportation infrastructure in Wisconsin. Jackson started her career as a staff auditor with Price Waterhouse, which led to a series of accounting and corporate management positions with a major national retailer.
It's a year before election -- so you know Scotty Walker will not raise taxes so he better find a way to budget for it, same for the other elected officials. The terrible roads are costing additional money for car repairs because of the pot holes and constant repair jobs on the roads.
Enough is enough!
I question the road data- I currently am bistatial - live and work in Madison and my family is in Michigan in the new house- the federal study that ranked Wisconsin near the bottom ranked Michigan in the middle! Michigan is far worse- I mean the roads are rubble including main drags like 94 and in many places street signs are not even replaced. (I am not talking detroit I am talking the rest of the state and around ann arbor which is the equivalent of Madison) I am not saying we do not have problems and we do not need major repairs to our roads but I smell a special interest group cooking the numbers.
By the way every time I see the words Michigan Miracle I feel like screaming. Things are so much worse there you do not want to use it as a model as the state seems to be doing.
Maybe if each one of us starts a personal lawsuit against SCOTTY for damage to our cars we will tie up the courts enough that he'll get the message but I doubt it. Unfortunately the residents of this state must be dumber than SCOTTY and all the rubbish we call elected officials because we keep electing people who do nothing for us. People wake up. I live on a very meager income and I don't care if the gas tax goes up so we can fix the roads. To put it in perspective, your yearly tax portion would probably be the cost of a few beers. Stop being so stupid and selfish. You want infrastructure fixed- it costs money! Only Scotty and his dumb congress thinks things can be done with mirrors. Maybe he can steal more from our children when people again aren't paying attention. Or I guess we can all let him continue to kick it the can down the road until the can falls thru a pot hole. Better yet maybe SCOTTY's car falls thru a pot hole . . . that would be the best. Maybe then he would notice.