I-80

OK.  What roads would you like to stop maintaining?  How about the ones around your house?

I would hate to burden the people that actually USE the road with helping to maintain the roads in PA. 

 Thats exactly my point.  The amount of money being diverted to roads and road work continues to go up every year without any apparent improvement or progress.  The roads around my house are absolutely abysmal and have gotten progressively worse in the last 3 years.  In the meantime, everytime I attempt to use one of the roads, it seems that 11 miles of road is closed down to one lane creating a 5 miles & 25 minute backup so that one worker can paint an expansion joint on a bridge.  OK....you've spent thousands of dollars preparing to do 20 dollars worth of work.  It's ridiculous.  The heads of these organizations continue to come back to the well for ever more money in a state where money is not plentiful anymore.  Ever heard the notion of lay-offs and do more with less.???

 Please understand that the initial construction of the road is one tenth the total cost of that road's lifetime cost.  Maintenance makes up 90% of a road's lifetime cost.  Add to the number of bridges that require even more frequent maintenance, this becomes quite a cost.  That is why states are not in any rush to construct new roads, because they see that in later years, maintenance of the new roads will cost more and more of the budget.

Addtionally, the Turnpike was built in 1940 and road construction standards and speeds have changed quite a bit.  I have seen advertising for the Turnpike from 1940 that envisioned picnicers using the median strip for picnics!

Transportation is too important to neglect.  The state needs almost $500 million in the next few years just to maintain the existing system.  Let's not penny pinch when it comes to public safety and transport.