San Diego drivers are paying nearly 35-hundred dollars a year because of potholes and traffic congestion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A new report from the Transportation Research nonprofit TRIP found nearly a third of our roads are listed in “poor condition.” Those potholes and uneven driving surfaces can knock your car around, which accelerates how quickly it falls apart or needs repairing.<\/p>\n
The most congested freeways remain the 5, 805 and 15. All that stopping and starting means we spend an extra 88 hours a year in traffic wasting 30 gallons of gas.<\/p>\n
As for fixing San Diego’s crumbling roadways, that likely won’t happen quickly. To bring the roads back to satisfactory condition would cost nearly 2-billion dollars, money the city, county and state don’t currently have.<\/p>\n
Part of the reason, revenue from California\u2019s motor fuel tax \u2014 a primary transportation funding source \u2014 is falling behind future needs as improved fuel efficiency and growing electric and hybrid vehicle use reduce gas tax collections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego drivers are paying nearly 35-hundred dollars a year because of potholes and traffic congestion.\u00a0 A new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[32903,66938,23,100,52807,74,76,75,821],"class_list":["post-373017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-congestion","tag-kogo-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-road-repairs","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}