Budget Woes Spell Doom for Roadside Rest Stops

[Lunican]

Budget Woes Spell Doom for Roadside Rest Stops

By MIKE ESTERL

As millions of Americans take to the road for the holiday weekend, a humble highway fixture is under attack.

Later this month, cash-strapped Virginia plans to barricade entrances and switch off the plumbing and electricity at nearly half its highway rest areas. Other states also are lowering budgetary axes on the public pit stops that have lined the interstate highway system since its creation in 1956.

But rest stops aren't going quietly.

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[urbanlibertarian]

If they do that around here my sex life will be taking a turn for the worst. 

[mtraininjax]

Other states also are lowering budgetary axes on the public pit stops that have lined the interstate highway system since its creation in 1956.

I wonder if this means that the FHP will move off of the rest areas since the whole tourist murders of the 1990s?

[civil42806]

Other states also are lowering budgetary axes on the public pit stops that have lined the interstate highway system since its creation in 1956.

I wonder if this means that the FHP will move off of the rest areas since the whole tourist murders of the 1990s?

FHP normally are not at the rest stops,  private contractors work the security at the rest stops.  Usually see Wackenhut trucks there.

[Jason]

If they do that around here my sex life will be taking a turn for the worst. 

You must be a trucker.