House Minority Leader Patricia Morgan Questions Effectiveness of RIDOT Spending
STATE HOUSE - House Minority Leader Patricia Morgan is questioning ten years of contract extensions on the I-95 South Viaduct Bridge Project. "My office submitted various APRA requests and the information provided by the Department of Transportation opened up more questions than answers, which I find deeply troubling," stated Leader Morgan. She continued, "A 2016 highway report shows that Rhode Island is among the worst states in the nation for cost-effectiveness of highway spending. The Providence Viaduct exemplifies this ineffectiveness and lack of efficiency for our taxpayer dollars." The report, issued by the Reason Foundation in 2016 about the performance…