Darmon T.

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Darmon T.6 months ago Sandy Valley Road, running north-south between the Clark County CDP of Sandy Valley and NV-160, is a dirt road that warrants paving. This roadway serves as a major access route for Sandy Valley residents traveling to Pahrump and as an alternate route to Las Vegas via NV-160. If Clark County will not consider this a near-term paving project, perhaps NDOT can assume maintenance and convert the road to state highway status.

Darmon T.6 months ago The legislature should adopt and implement an electric vehicle road-use tax modeled after those in Utah, Oregon, and Washington State, taxing EVs at 1.2 cents per mile with a maximum annual cap of $144 (12,000 miles per registration year), either through an annual odometer reading at registration renewal or via vehicle telematics. This proposal is fair and non-punitive for EV owners and would offset state and local road maintenance costs in lieu of ICE vehicle fuel taxes. EV owners who drive fewer than 12,000 miles per registration year would pay less. I also suggest allocating a portion of the proposed RUT's revenues to repair and maintain NDOT-installed DC fast chargers on Nevada Electric Highway routes, many of which have been abandoned.

Darmon T.6 months ago The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is sitting on $25 million in federal NEVI funds allocated for building electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the state. Currently, the Nevada Electric Highway ( https://nevadaelectrichighway.com) has been abandoned ( https://scottexplains.com/f/nevada-built-an-ev-highway-and-then-abandoned-it) due to damaged and inoperable charging stations along US highways 6, 50, 93, and 95, making it difficult for EV drivers to travel between Las Vegas and Reno, towns in northeastern Nevada, and to visit state parks, Great Basin National Park, and other popular tourism sites in rural Nevada. It's a known issue that NDOT lacks the staffing and resources to maintain rural charging stations on its own, so a partnership with private developers is necessary. Nevada should take a page from transportation departments in other states and seek out private developers who currently operate travel centers, grocery stores, retail centers, and convenience stores along NEH routes to install and operate charging stations, and to take over abandoned chargers for restoration and operation. Selected developers will need to contribute funds toward the construction and/or repair of new or existing sites. For example, here's an article (https://electrek.co/2026/04/16/ohio-drops-51m-on-64-new-ev-charging-sites-heres-where-theyll-go/) about a recently announced NEVI-funded rollout of EV charging sites in Ohio. NDOT can take similar actions to improve and support EV transportation for Nevada and make our state more accessible for tourism.