Riverside Press Enterprise Opinion Editorial: We all pay, the more they delay fixing roads
February 10, 2017
By JOHN F. TAVAGLIONE and CHUCK WASHINGTON / Contributing writers
The California Legislature urgently needs to pass a transportation funding package in 2017 to address the billions in backlogged maintenance needs that have led to potholes, deteriorating roads, bridges and transit systems here in our community. The longer we wait to fix the small problems, the bigger and more expensive they become. In fact, it costs eight times more to fix a road than to maintain it.