Fund Transfer Finally Ends
More than $200 million a year in revenue collected from motorists will now be used to maintain, refurbish, and expand the roads and bridges they traverse across North Carolina.
When it comes to the backbone of North Carolina’s highway-funding system, taxing fuel, technology has subverted its ability to serve as a stable approximation of a user fee.
RALEIGH — Eastern North Carolina traffic planners are in the process of deciding whether to add tolls to ferries that operate up and down the coast, or to divert money for their eventual replacements from the money allocated in their divisional highway budget. State lawmakers in 2013 gave local officials the option.