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Idaho has been losing $645,000 a year administering oversize-load permits including those for so-called megaloads, Lewiston Tribune reporter Bill Spence reported today; the news came out when an ITD official briefed a legislative committee on pending ITD rules, which include fee increases designed to try to wipe out that deficit. “We're required to recoup the administrative cost of running the program,” ITD official Regina Phipps told the Senate Transportation Committee/Bill Spence, Lewiston Tribune, via Eye On Boise. More here.
Seriously?
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Phaedrus on January 24 at 11:19 p.m.
OMG! It’s getting to the point that the incompetence of the Idaho GOP is bordering on the criminal. Do you have to be complicit in this type of behavior to vote for these people,or just ignoran?t
duroc on January 25 at 7:24 a.m.
From all of us who tried in vain to convince the rest of the state that this was nothing more than a boondoggle from the get-go:
Told you so!
powderfarmer on January 25 at 8:02 a.m.
Since this a rule change doesn’t that imply that 12 is destined to be a permanent high and wide transportation route?
powderfarmer on January 25 at 8:02 a.m.
Since this a rule change doesn’t that imply that 12 is destined to be a permanent high and wide transportation route?
duroc on January 25 at 8:17 a.m.
My question is this:
What’s the source of this problem? Corruption, or ineptitude?