Damien Newton Quotations

Our roads and streets are getting less safe. A lot of it's due to reckless driving, and we should be reversing that trend by having stricter enforcement.

We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused by speeding and reckless driving, that speaks to enforcement.

There is a 4 percent cap on new highway extensions, but there are eight exceptions, which include everything imaginable. You read it closer, and we're being bamboozled.

We're hoping to see strong regulations down the road. The challenge is how to do that. As with any task force, it depends on what happens to the recommendations.

We've heard that they're appealing, and that's good, but they've lost a couple of cases. By all means appeal, but I don't know if that will be the silver bullet.

We don't want to see a lot more bonding. We want it to be pay as you go.

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

It's a great budget. What we saw before was DOT trying to build its way out of congestion.

The focus is on the administration to take the lead and set the tone that we'll be a state that doesn't tolerate reckless driving.