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“Neither candidate is addressing sustainable, longterm funding for transportation,” complains Richard McDonough, past president of the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, according to a report in The Washington Post.
He's right But even the gas tax that gets McDonough’s support doesn’t address those concerns sufficiently.
Either Bob McDonnell or Creigh Deeds is going to be our next governor come January, and the transportation fixes that they have been touting for months during this long and arduous campaign are going to play a big part in which one it is.
Both continue to embrace the idea of throwing more and more asphalt at our transportation problems. That’s a solution that no longer works. Neither candidate seems particularly cognizant of that, or, if they are, particularly willing to address what it means.
That has something to do with getting elected, we suppose. American voters, Virginians among them, don’t particularly cotton to candidates telling them things they don’t want to hear.
While the Rappahannock News normally recommends a choice in statewide elections, in view of differences with several important positions of both gubernatorial candidates, we have chosen not to indicate a preference.
The only endorsement we will make is the importance of turning out to vote in an election that has become of such importance this year to Virginia, and, politically, to the rest of the country.
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