Snyder wanted to get the roads fixed. He didn't ignore the road funding issue. He wanted a full, long-lasting solution but he spent way too much time trying to work with the legislature on an agreeable way to solve the issue. Once he finally realized that wasn't going to happen, he went to the voters with Proposal 1. That would have solved the funding problem by dedicating ALL taxes collected at the pump to road funding, which is in line with how most states do it. Unfortunately, it also required increasing both the gas and sales tax so that school funding wouldn't be impacted. The voters turned that down. So the band aid solution that he ended up putting in place was the best he could do since the legislature and the voters both said no to proposals that would have actually fixed the problem.