A couple of months back, Elizabeth Hagood of the SC Coastal Conservation League came to talk to the editorial board about DOT reform.
As my column today indicates, her coalition takes a different tack from ours on the subject. We’re about changing the governing structure to make it accountable. The League and its allies are about trying to nail down new procedures for deciding road priorities as part of the reform.
I continue to hold that you create an accountable structure before you trust it with specific policy approaches. Ignore structure for the sake of the Legislature’s promises on future policies, and you can’t hold either the agency OR the Legislature accountable for actually carrying such policies out.
Anyway, here you’ll find video of Ms. Hagood explaining the five points that they consider essential in changing the way DOT does business.
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