Thank you for your comment, but I disagree. Yes, it's the role of the legislature to appropriate, and I understand that you believe they haven't appropriated enough; however, it's the job of the Administration to wisely spend those funds in the best manner. 

Do you honestly think this stretch of road doesn't require maximum AST coverage? Art very well sums up in the below comment how a poor leader budgets their resources: cut where it will hurt the public the most, and then people (like you JW907) will complain to the legislature that there's not enough funding. Your elected official caves-in and appropriates more cash.....I like to call that the 'snowball effect' as it, the state's budget, keeps rolling downhill and getting larger and larger...