General Assembly refuses to consider Landes’ legislation

Delegate, others hope to introduce legislation at General Assembly session

The state has closed 18 interstate rest areas and plans to close another by September. Traveling I-64 over the weekend, my family and I can attest to the need to keep all of the stops open.

Official appeals to Congress ahead of rest area closures

The Virginia Department of Transportation is eliminating two Augusta County rest stops, the Verona residency office and is making across the board service reductions in cuts approved Thursday by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

Government wastes like a fat man breathes, heavier and more frequently with each step. Few agencies are fatter than state departments of transportation, whose waste may be anything but voluntary. Feeding perpetually on taxpayer money, state DOTs are a traditional repository of raw gluttony, with parasitic legions swarming to nibble and sometimes chomp at bounties of billions of dollars. A query that percolates in the commonwealth: Is VDOT different?

Delegate urges state to slam brakes on rest area plan

Amid the huff into which state Sen. Mark Obenshain has worked himself over plans to, among other things, close most of the 41 rest areas on Interstate 81, an idea has sprung: Why not privatize those spots? To which we say, why not?