Two lawmakers are proposing separate fixes to different parts of the state’s crumbling road system, one to address the state’s local roads and the other to widen and improve South Carolina’s interstates.
Sen. Nikki Setzler, leader of Senate Democrats is proposing legislation that would build an interstate improvement fund by taking money form car sales tax while leveraging it with revenue bonds to collect an estimated $590 million dollars a year for existing interstate expansion and improvements.
Republican Rep. Tommy Stringer, of Greenville is proposing two different bills to fix the states road system. First he wants to transfer 21,000 miles of secondary and local roadways to county and local governments. And his second bill would raise the states gas tax and use that increase of 5 cent increase to help pay for the roadway improvements.
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