With gas prices low, boosting gas tax could go a long way for R.I.

THE STATE NEEDS TO FIND more consistent funding for infrastructure projects, such as the rebuilding of the Providence Viaduct. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
THE STATE NEEDS TO FIND more consistent funding for infrastructure projects, such as the rebuilding of the Providence Viaduct. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Isn’t it time that some serious effort is spent on fixing our roads and bridges, before deferred maintenance and outdated bridges lead to a tragedy of major proportions? Not possible? Just ask the citizens of Minnesota, where the 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35 bridge into the Mississippi River took the lives of 13 people

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  1. Really! Adding more taxes to RI residents what surprise.
    I’m a “middle class” (and shrinking) 48 year Rhode Islander who cannot afford another tax.
    After a while you have to start asking yourself, do I want to continue to live a dominant welfare state?
    Do we really think gas will stay under 3.00 for long period of time?
    What happens when it goes back to 4.00?
    And then 5.00……..
    How about cutting spending before raise any more taxes. It’s the only way this state will survive.