As gas tax increase looms, county infrastructure projects can stagnate for years

To build everything currently on the counties’ wish lists would cost about $12 billion
by C. Benjamin Ford, Staff Writer

Since at least 1987, when Jay Moyer was on the Oakland town council in Garrett County, the relocation of U.S. 219 to bypass the town was listed as the county’s top priority in the annual letter to the state Department of Transportation.

Each year the county put it on the wish list of transportation projects to the state to consider funding, and each year the request itself was bypassed by the state for other projects on other counties’ wish lists.

Two years ago, Moyer, now the county’s general roads superintendent, asked Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) about the project.

“He told me the state didn’t have the money for it,” Moyer said. “He told me that right to my face. He pulled his pockets right out of his pants and said, ‘Does it look like I have the money for it?’”

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