What We Can Do
The County Engineers Association of Ohio is asking all those who are interested in improving the state of Ohio’s infrastructure to get involved. Please ask your congressmen to make the following recommendations to the Ohio General Assembly:
- Make a commitment to provide County Engineers with the resources to recover, stabilize and improve county maintained highways and bridges to minimum levels of safety and reliability.
- Ensure that new capital improvement dollars, as a result of additional appropriations or new revenue enhancements, are distributed among Ohio’s 88 counties.
Simply put, Ohio’s 30,000 miles of county highways and 26,000 bridges are wearing out and deteriorating at a pace beyond the fiscal capabilities of its County Engineers to respond.1
Traditional sources are not allowing counties to keep up, let alone get ahead, of the skyrocketing repair and reconstruction demands of its highways and bridges. The fact remains, that simply maintaining current levels of funding for county highway maintenance actually means that counties fall even further behind.2
Consequently, the challenge in overcoming such enormous obstacles to Ohio’s county highway maintenance is twofold, encompassing critical needs for the safety of travelers and the new economic realities driving business and industry to demand more from county transportation systems.
Asking your elected officials to get involved will alert the Ohio General Assembly and Federal Government to the deteriorating condition of Ohio’s infrastructure.
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