Seeing the story about Delaware Department of Transportation’s quick work to finish the U.S. 40 project in Bear seems to highlight that we take for granted the work done by people who handle our road construction. The vast majority of the construction projects don’t have problems, but this may be one of first positive stories on them to appear in this paper.Actually Steven, the General Assembly's DEMs and GOPers have been publicly prodding Jack Markell and his Secretary of Transportation to get off their duff and start to spend money on fixing roads.
Of course when someone has a problem with the roads, you hear about it loud and clear, but maybe we should realize that it’s not that DelDOT’s ignoring those problems. Or that there aren’t enough unemployed construction workers to do them.
It’s that our state isn’t committed to paying for the projects we want. Gov. Jack Markell is the only one who seems to want to find ways to get them done, but members of the General Assembly don’t have the political courage to say they’ll fund them. Instead of throwing fits about DelDOT, I think it’s time that we start calling our state representatives.
Steven Brantley
Smyrna
But Secretary Bhatt, right or wrong, is fixated instead on deferring projects until he's paid down more of the agency's humongous debt service.
To get more money for roads, officials must get taxes raised or remove agency operations from the Transportation Trust Fund.
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