End the Highway Wars? Hell no, this is just getting fun. Fleming makes it very clear the region is considering a separate taxing district.
Rural areas in most states are subsidized to a degree. Roads per person would simply be too much of a local burden when you have low population density. The difficulty here is that rural interests want low taxes and more than the usual subsidy. Welcome to the State of Misery.
The irony of the situation is that MODOT is trying to assuage rural interests upset over the 1992 plan, but may well alienate a larger block of voters in the states economic engine. Ultimately, MODOT needs a significant reorganization and a tax increase—but rural interests won’t agree to that. Seccession with a separate regional road authority is the likely result. How you like dem bridges?