This isn’t efficient use of this road. The truck on the left took 13 minutes to pass the one on the right creating a long line of cars. The trucking industry touts that trucks pay 35 times as much in taxes as private automobiles. The problem is that a 40,000 pound truck causes roughly 10,000 times as much wear & tear damage to roads as a 3,500 pound car.

Trump Infrastructure Plan Needs A Better Funding Source

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Walker Angell • July 5, 2017

President Trump has a plan to pay for $1 trillion in infrastructure improvements over the next 10 years through various pseudo privatization schemes. There are still a lot of unknowns but the basic gist is; a private corporation is given rights to build and maintain some bit of infrastructure (or given existing infrastructure to care […]