Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   No to gas tax Date:   3/7/2019 10:13:27 AM

No doubt those you mentioned will benefit.

I spent 2 1/2 years in the DC area, ending a little over a year ago, and did a fair amount of bike riding (while my wife stayed back in Montgomery keeping up a five acre place, she will point out) and they have great bike trails, many of which go under bridges on the major thoroughfares.  I was appalled at the serious corrosion going on with those bridges, and in fact they closed the Memorial Bridge (Lincoln Memorial over the Potomac to Arlington Cemetery) to tour buses because the bridge was in such poor shape.  I don't see that type of thing in the Montgomery area or the roads to the lake or Birmingham, but do understand there are many unsafe bridges around the state.  We don't need cars or trucks nosediving into bodies of water.  The real question is who decides and how they decide priorities and vendor/contractor selection.  Will have to see if Gov Ivey can break the chokehold the "favored ones" have held on the state over the years.