Tag: Transportation

The transportation deal, it stinketh

If your taxes go up again, this time you can thank Virginia Republicans. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch The negotiators _ five delegates and five senators _ signed off on a compromise that would replace Virginia’s 17 1/2 cents-per-gallon gasoline tax with a 3.5 percent wholesale tax on gasoline and 6 percent on diesel fuel, boost …

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If you can read this in traffic, thank a Virginia Senate Democrat

Norm has the scoop over at Bearing Drift, it looks like Virginia Senate Democrats are willing to stick it to all of us again on transportation because they didn’t get their way on redistricting. They’ve effectively killed all the transportation plans in the Senate without offering one of their own. Nice temper tantrum. As Norm …

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