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NC Highway Maintenance Is Behind and Won’t Catch up Any Time Soon
$3.4 billion. That’s how much bad roads and congestion in North Carolina costs its drivers in higher vehicle ownership costs, according to a report commissioned by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
Fixing those roads as well as repairing and replacing bridges, building new highways and any other large projects the NCDOT has on its schedule takes money, and lots of it. Steve Abbott, a spokesperson for the NCDOT, said that to bring every bridge in the state to “good” condition would cost $3.8 billion, roughly 71 percent of the department’s $5.3 billion budget for the year.