[Vision2020] If you can't keep them from stopping..... Visions of Highway 12........

Ron Force rforce2003 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 9 21:11:52 PDT 2013 

The Interstates were originally built by the Fed, but now are owned and maintained by the states, as are US highways.

Here's Wikipedia:
Interstate highways and their rights of way are owned by the state in which they were built. The last federally owned portion of the Interstate System was the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on the Washington DC Capital Beltway. The new bridge was completed in 2009 and is collectively owned by Virginia and Maryland [40] Maintenance is generally the responsibility of the state department of transportation. However, there are some segments of Interstate owned and maintained by local authorities.
About 70 percent of the construction and maintenance costs of Interstate Highways in the United States have been paid through user fees, primarily the fuel taxes collected by the federal, state, and local governments. To a much lesser extent they have been paid for by tolls collected on toll highways and bridges. The Highway Trust Fund, established by the Highway Revenue Act in 1956, prescribed a three-cent-per-gallon fuel tax, soon increased to 4.5 cents per gallon. In 1993 the tax was increased to 18.4 cents per gallon, where it remains as of 2012.[41]...

The system of United States Numbered Highways (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads andhighways in the United States numbered within a nationwide grid. As these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but they have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.

Here's the source of funds for the Idaho Dept. of Transportation(2007):
Our transportation
revenue* comes from
the following sources
STATE 41.1%
• Gas Tax 40.8%
• Diesel Tax 18.2%
• Registration Fees 28.7%
• State Highway Account
Misc. Revenue 12.3%
FEDERAL 56.7%
LOCAL 1.9%
OTHER 0.3%
Idaho receives 64% more funding from the Federal Highway Fund than in pays into it in gas taxes. 

 
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA



On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 7:37 PM, Kai Eiselein <fotopro63 at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
Yup, but Hawaii isn't the only state with an intrastate interstate. 
>In Arizona, there is I-19, which connects Nogales and Tucson, it is also the only interstate with metric distance signage, the speed limit signs are in MPH.
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>> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:10:13 -0700 
>> From: tiedye at turbonet.com 
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] If you can't keep them from stopping.....  
>> Visions of Highway 12........ 
>>  
>> The states build US highways WITH federal money given to them for the  
>> purpose. The Feds build the Interstates (with federal money of  
>> course).   And the states build state highways with state money plus  
>> often some federal grants for specific projects. 
>>  
>> I didn't look that all up, but I'm at least 80% confident that I'm correct. 
>>  
>> Quick aside: ever think about the three "Interstate" freeways in  
>> Hawaii?.  I drove to work in Pearl Harbor on H1 for three years when I  
>> was in the Navy. 
>>  
>> Dave 
>>  
>>  
>> On 10/9/2013 4:33 PM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote: 
>> Wayne, 
>>  
>> In your research did you find out who built them? Great how one state  
>> starts building right where the neighboring states stopped. Or where  
>> the Feds involved? 
>>  
>> Sunil 
>>  
>> ________________________________ 
>> From: thansen at moscow.com<mailto:thansen at moscow.com> 
>> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:06:21 -0700 
>> To: bear at moscow.com<mailto:bear at moscow.com> 
>> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com<mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com> 
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] If you can't keep them from stopping.....  
>> Visions of Highway 12........ 
>>  
>> You had better contact the Idaho Department of Transportation. 
>>  
>> They are under the impression that US-12 is a U.S. Highway. 
>>  
>> http://tinyurl.com/kd2uetc 
>>  
>> While you're at it, you might as well contact  Washington state DOT.  
>>   They're under the same assumption. 
>>  
>> http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/search/#q=Us-12 
>>  
>> Jeesh! 
>>  
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . . 
>>  
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on) 
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com 
>>  
>> Tom Hansen 
>> Moscow, Idaho 
>>  
>> "There's room at the top they are telling you still 
>> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
>> If you want to be like the folks on the hill." 
>>  
>> - John Lennon 
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Wayne Price  
>> <bear at moscow.com<mailto:bear at moscow.com>> wrote: 
>>  
>> OUTSTANDING.....then you'll have no problems with NO STATE money going  
>> into it! 
>>  
>> But, as you are so often -WRONG! Check your facts !!!!!!!! 
>>  
>>  
>> "U.S. Highways is an integrated network of roads and highways in  
>> the U<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>nited States numbered  
>> within a nationwide grid. As these highways were coordinated among the  
>> states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but they have  
>> always been maintained by state or local governments since their  
>> initial designation in 1926." 
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Tom Hansen wrote: 
>>  
>> One minor correction, Mr. Price. 
>>  
>> Highway 12 is a U.S. highway, not a state highway. 
>>  
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . . 
>>  
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on) 
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com<http://www.MoscowCares.com/> 
>>  
>> Tom Hansen 
>> Moscow, Idaho 
>>  
>> "There's room at the top they are telling you still 
>> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
>> If you want to be like the folks on the hill." 
>>  
>> - John Lennon 
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Wayne Price  
>> <bear at moscow.com<mailto:bear at moscow.com>> wrote: 
>>  
>> "Grand Canyon officials have closed a state highway that runs through  
>> the park after discovering that tourists had removed barricades to  
>> access overlooks along the road." 
>>  
>> Notice it is a STATE highway, just like Highway 12 here in Idaho, so  
>> what Arizona should do is the very same thing Idaho should do with  
>> Highway 12. The feds and in Highway 12's case, the Nez Perce Tribe want  
>> "control" over the highway, let them have it, along with the  
>> responsibility for maintaining it. 
>>  
>> Wayne 
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Kai Eiselein wrote: 
>>  
>> Then shut down the highway. 
>>  
>>  
>> http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/Citations-Issued-at-Grand-Canyon.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost 
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Effin bastards. 
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