Use priorities, metrics, partnerships to fix roads

Recently the California State Senate voted to raise gas taxes and automobile fees by $5.2 billion a year — money that is supposed to be used to fund transportation improvements. The Legislature had already approved the plan after Gov. Jerry Brown made deals to earmark some of the bill’s funding for Riverside County and the Central Valley. Brown’s deals to secure votes have raised some eyebrows.
Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes, R-Rancho Mirage, went so far as to say some l