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gas prices

DOT Reports Americans Still Driving Less

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is lamenting the fact that Americans are driving less, resulting in declining gas tax revenues and decreased funding for road projects. As eTrucker reports, the federal government already had to make an emergency contribution of $8 billion to the DOT in September to continue in-progress projects. Statistics show Americans have driven 62.6 billion miles less than they did over the same nine-month period last year, leading Peters to remark "If we don’t evolve our policies, we will leave a sad legacy of old roads, crowded highways and unfulfilled transit ambitions." Which is exactly what we have now, so who do we blame for that? [eTrucker; Photo Credit]

1:45 PM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Andrew Stoy
551 views, 36 comments

Latest by zolielo: Roads are needed for freedom of movement, movement of goods, emergency medical aid, and national defense. Road and their derivatives more »

question of the day

What's The Worst Road You've Ever Driven On?

Though we've asked you about your favorite roads, today's geoporn of Beijing's craziest interchanges got us thinking of the worst roads we've driven on. We can't help but remember a Hungarian prof telling the story of German diplomats driving around Romania (Hungarians and Romanians don't get along, fyi). The Germans think they're making great progress and all four of them are chatting about this in their big Mercedes and then they hit a pothole. A pothole so big it swallows the entire car. Then, as the professor said, "they were all dead, poof." This was supposed to be the punch line. You have to love that Eastern European sense of humor. More »

11:40 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,146 views, 101 comments

Latest by Crash Chloride: I posted this on the Best Road post... The worst road I have ever driven on is none other than more »