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After 60 Years, 1,900-Mile-Long Interstate 95 Is Almost Finished (bloomberg.com)
"It has taken 60 years, but a small, strange gap in Interstate-95 is being filled," writes Slashdot reader McGruber. Bloomberg reports: Near the Pennsylvania border, drivers have long been forced off the interstate and onto other roadways, only to join back 8 miles away. Transportation officials and civil engineers spent more than two decades and $425 million to eliminate this detour off I-95, the most traveled highway in America, spanning 1,900 miles from Miami to Maine.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, which oversees the I-95 Interchange Project, said the new infrastructure -- which includes the creation of flyover ramps, toll plaza facilities, environmental mitigation sites, intersections, six overhead bridges, widened highways and new connections to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania turnpikes -- will be open to the public by Sept. 24. "The benefit of completing this 'missing link' is mobility," said Carl DeFebo, the director of public relations at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The new infrastructure will reduce traffic time for north- and south-bound travelers and ease congestion on local roads that used to connect I-95 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, which oversees the I-95 Interchange Project, said the new infrastructure -- which includes the creation of flyover ramps, toll plaza facilities, environmental mitigation sites, intersections, six overhead bridges, widened highways and new connections to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania turnpikes -- will be open to the public by Sept. 24. "The benefit of completing this 'missing link' is mobility," said Carl DeFebo, the director of public relations at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The new infrastructure will reduce traffic time for north- and south-bound travelers and ease congestion on local roads that used to connect I-95 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The California bullet train is projected to cost as much as $98BN for 119 Ike's of track - that's a bit more than $50M/mile.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1...
Ken
Drive in America (even Chicago or Boston), then drive in Cairo, Egypt... come back and tell us you still don't care about lines on roads.
It's Democrats no longer caring about lines that is driving them to distraction and losing elections.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I notice that Governor Jerry Brown, the leading proponent of this boondoggle, accidentally told the truth in his recent State of State speech. Again voicing his support for the never-ending building project, he said it would last over a hundred years.