David Hartgen, emeritus professor of transportation studies at UNC-Charlotte and John Locke Foundation adjunct scholar, outlines a key problem with taxpayer-funded state transportation projects: logrolling among members of the N.C. Board of Transportation. Hartgen offered these comments during an appearance on the PBS program “Now.”
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