They are taking away our open highways

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142. I also recall

that when Ronnie Raygun was in office the I80 corridor in PA, specifically, was in a constant state of repair with single lane travel for miles upon miles with barrel partitions which seemed to move from location to location while work was never taking place in the "construction" zones. Well, actually, any "work" being done was that which tore up the road surface but was rarely if ever actually repaired. I remember conversations with other truckers in which we concluded that the state was just moving the barrels around so that they could get the maximum $$ in aid for federal road repair while doing absolutely nothing but extending the "construction" zone mileage for the money. It seemed that at the time there was some policy where state received aid for federal roadways under repair that was increased by mileage of work zones with no oversight. this went on for years, and each consecutive year you would see the barrels come out in spring and remain until the snow came and the holes they did patch up were far worse than when the alleged work began, and the zones were the exact same locations as the previous year.

Since I retired I have purposely avoided transportation policy due to previous overload.