From AL.com:
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"Citing declining gas tax revenues, ALDOT Director John Cooper recently chopped what had been a five-year, $4 billion statewide road construction budget to about $1 billion over 10 years."
How do you come to the sudden realization that you need to go from planning to spend $800 million a year to planning to spend $100 million a year? I'm sure gas tax revenue is declining, but there is no way a drop off that steep occurred...
ALDOT is one of the biggest reasons Alabama's economic growth trails that of the rest of the nation; yet, you'll never hear our legislators say anything about what they'll do to fix it.