This ensured that each region would have some certainty about the funding it will receive. The priority list was the key to gaining support for the bill because each legislator knew which roads in his or her district would get a piece of the funding, Stosch said. The legislators' designating of funds raised a brouhaha on the state transportation board, which allocates funds to VDOT projects. The board's members say the General Assembly usurped their control. We should not have our hands tied because we look at these projects on a bipartisan basis, not a political basis.
Roads are for everyone.
Independents, Democrats and Republicans. Welsh said she's interested in widening I-81, which is in her district. I'm very concerned about that. Such a procedure would eliminate many of the delays people ask about, Welsh said. VDOT plans to have a public information meeting on the Glenvar project in the fall of 2001 and advertise for construction bids in 2005, two years later than the six-year plan showed in 1998.