"At the end of the day, I think what you have is this is an embarrassment. we've had local people go to Texas to come back and say this works," Puckett said. "NCDOT has used Texas as the poster child as why this is great financially and from a program perspective and so now it really blows up in their face and they are faced with 'I told you so' if they don't get out and this happens to us."