By RICK BRUNDRETT Two S.C. House bills that would temporarily suspend the state gasoline tax…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT As South Carolina motorists over the past year have been paying more…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last Friday, President Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh to tout his $1 trillion…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In unveiling his fiscal 2022-23 state budget this week, Gov. Henry McMaster…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation wants approval to spend about $139 million…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As a special legislative panel considers a yet-to-be-revealed road funding proposal, the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Once again, the state’s chief revenue forecasters have grossly overestimated the popularity…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Major repaving or road reconstruction projects in South Carolina could take on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina will need almost $43 billion more by 2040 to fix…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Out of this fiscal year’s $32.5 billion state budget, more than a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Stuck in a pothole. For the fiscal year that ended June 30,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Only three bridge projects have been completed in South Carolina with the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The number of potholes that the S.C. Department of Transportation claims it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Motorists likely will feel plenty of bumps this Memorial Day weekend as…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Through March, a special fund created with the state gas-tax-hike law had…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In its latest annual report, the S.C. Department of Transportation claimed it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In just one year, the surplus from state gas-tax-hike revenues grew by…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An income tax credit that S.C. lawmakers created in 2017 to offset…
By RICK BRUNDRETT 2020 ended with a first in the 3½ years of the gas-tax-hike…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to drive over pothole-free…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Despite lawmakers’ promises more than three years ago that part of the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In theory, the pace of fixing South Carolina’s pothole-riddled roads should have…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The slow pace of fixing South Carolina’s bad roads and bridges since…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Motorists in South Carolina are now paying 8 cents more per gallon…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As residents and tourists hit South Carolina roads this July 4th holiday…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Despite reduced traffic in South Carolina over the past two months resulting…
By RICK BRUNDRETT It was supposed to be a routine trip home. Phyllis Elliott and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT While House budget writers have designated an extra $100 million next fiscal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT No paving projects were completed between the end of November and December…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Although nearly $1 billion has been collected since the state gas-tax-hike law…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last week, the S.C. Department of Transportation announced that it had completed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the fiscal year that starts next July 1, the state Department…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Although state transportation officials claim they are making serious progress in fixing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT With the start of the third year of the state’s gas-tax-hike law,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In January 2016, a driver swerved around a pothole on Bate Harvey…