Comments on: Spend More, Or Spend Smarter?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:54:57 +0000

Greg,

I am happy to say that my audit bill, Chief co-patroned by Delegate Glen Oder of Newport News, passed out of both the Transportation and Appropriations Committees and will be on the floor of the House tomorrow, 25 June.

There are no self-butchering hogs and we need this outside look by a private-sector audit firm, not another “inside job” that sustains the bureaucracy. I also chose to use the Auditor of Public Accounts (APA) to administer the selection of the private auditor firm because I didn’t want the transportation bureaucracy to pick the auditor.

I will keep you updated as soon as we can get this off the floor. Then we must press on the Senate to take it up, pass it, get busy, and look after the interests of tax payers. Now that would be a change.

Regards,

Scott Lingamfelter

By: MGBlankenship

MGBlankenship — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:57:07 +0000

Let’s http//www.BeatTheGridlock.com once and for all!

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:50:14 +0000

I agree ,no more roads no more transit, let’s all sit in gridlock for the next 20 years.

By: Red, White and Blue

Red, White and Blue — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:56:19 +0000

You mean Duck Colgan was not at the press conference?

I agree with sahdman and Scott Lingamfelter. Scott is a people person and understands how conservatives are supposed to think and act. Duck Colgan is like a Kennedy or a Byrd. People just keep voting them back in, not because they are the best candidate but because…, let me think……..

By: sahdman

sahdman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:28:53 +0000

This is a great idea. Start making the government accountable before they take any more money away from us.

By: MP Resident

MP Resident — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:59:47 +0000

I’ve seen plenty of examples of VDOT not doing things quite correctly.

Their handling of construction zones, or their oversight of their contractors, is pretty poor. Things like confusing lane markings (where the reflectors aren’t removed from the roadway when the painted lane lines are relocated–I’ve seen this TWICE and it almost caused an accident TWICE), or closing the left turn lane onto Willard Rd from 28NB without any advance signage indicating that fact, again almost causing an accident, and of course the traffic signals with malfunctioning loop detectors that VDOT can never seem to fix. (I read a paper where it was stated that malfunctioning loop detectors can be a major cause of traffic backups…and I’ve seen that result myself on several occasions).

Then there was the time I was driving to work and either VDOT or one of their contractors was plopping cones in the middle lane of 28. There were cones knocked all over the place, because they hadn’t actually closed any lanes, just started putting cones down and getting them about 2 feet into the left side of the middle lane.

All of these things are symptoms of some sort of underlying dysfunction that I’m not sure more money will fix. The root cause of this stuff is a management problem.