In “Funding Formula Irks Steward,” the Potomac News reports that Corey Steward, the Chairman of the Prince William Board of Supervisors, plans to challenge in Federal Court the state’s transportation funding formula. Steward contents that the arbitrary formula used by the state violates the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.
He said for years the county’s board of supervisors has tried to convince the governor’s office and the leaders of the General Assembly to change the transportation funding formula. The lawsuit is a last ditch effort to bring some attention to the basic inequities behind the state’s funding approach, which results having the areas generating the highest tax revenues for the state turn into choke-points because of gridlocked roads.