California’s Worst-in-Nation Roads Face $5.7 Billion Funding Gap
The dilemma that California and other U.S. states face is that their main road-funding source—gasoline taxes—is shrinking as engines improve and electric vehicles become more common.
A road worker walks by a large pothole on N. Mission Rd. near Lincoln Park Ave. in Los Angeles. Photographer: Liz O. Baylen/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
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California’s streets are some of the most potholed and rutted in the U.S., with three-fourths in Los Angeles and San Francisco rated poor in a new national study calling on lawmakers to boost road funding.
The dilemma that California and other U.S. states face is that their main road-funding source -- gasoline taxes -- is shrinking as engines improve and electric vehicles become more common.