Issue Position: Rebuilding our Roads and Infrastructure

Issue Position

For too long, our highways, roads, and bridges have been neglected. The investments needed to maintain the vast expanse of highways, bridges, and roads continue to grow. Aric has supported legislation that invests over a half billion dollars of additional funding for our roads. He knows more needs to be done.

He has supported legislation for stronger warranties by road builders, improved competitive bidding procedures for local governments, and streamlining the Department of Transportation. For example, changing the way road contracts are negotiated could save 20-30 percent. For every 100 miles of roads paved today, that would mean another 20 miles paved under a system that is based on merit. With rural counties, such as ours, reverting some of the paved roads back to gravel, it's time to reexamine how these contracts are awarded to ensure money goes to improve our infrastructure, not those favored by the political class.

Aric has voted for legislation to direct gasoline taxes to actually go towards transportation, along with prioritizing more current revenues to be directed to building our roads and bridges.

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