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Originally Posted by caps
wont this affect the funding to maintain the road as well?
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Everyone keeps throwing that out there, like all of a sudden some magical chunk of money from the feds is going to disappear. Even if the feds reduced by some small percentage the amount of "highway funds" given to the state for road maintenance, there will be a lot less required maintenance on the road, since the traffic won't be 10K + pound vehicles.
There are any number of simialr roads that have banned semi trucks from using them. Shockingly, they are still open nad well maintained. Any loss of funds from the feds will liekly be negligible, since that partiuclar road is one of many many roads for which the state receives federal money.