first megahighways to be built

[Hammer]

very much needed. especially the first one, parallel to 35.

Link

 

[TitanDiddly]

Score.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Linky no worky.

 

[sniperruff]

for those who's in NY i actually think of this idea....


bi-level LIE!!! it would rock!

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

:heart:😕 It works for me. Are you sure?🙂

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

Linky work fine here!

Built mostly by private donations and carry's everything (rail, car, utilities, even data lines). Toll roads though.

P.S. Let's hope it turns out better than the "Big Dig"! :Q

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

:heart:😕 It works for me. Are you sure?🙂

Fvckin A.
Cannot find server.

 

[Tom]

for that much why not build giant conveyor belts ?

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

Linky work fine here!

Built mostly by private donations and carry's everything (rail, car, utilities, even data lines). Toll roads though.

P.S. Let's hope it turns out better than the "Big Dig"! :Q

That BIG Dig was a catastrophe. Boston needs to invest ITS money into something more plausible and useful.🙂

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

Linky work fine here!

Built mostly by private donations and carry's everything (rail, car, utilities, even data lines). Toll roads though.

P.S. Let's hope it turns out better than the "Big Dig"! :Q

That BIG Dig was a catastrophe. Boston needs to invest ITS money into something more plausible and useful.🙂

How bad did the Big Did turn out to be?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
for those who's in NY i actually think of this idea....


bi-level LIE!!! it would rock!

you have no idea how many times I've thought about that. No idea.

It's taking them something like 2-3 years to put in an HOV lane down 20 extra exits.. how long do you think i t may take them to do more highway ? Damn NY traffic. :|

 

[Jhill]

Think the speed limit will be faster?

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

Linky work fine here!

Built mostly by private donations and carry's everything (rail, car, utilities, even data lines). Toll roads though.

P.S. Let's hope it turns out better than the "Big Dig"! :Q

That BIG Dig was a catastrophe. Boston needs to invest ITS money into something more plausible and useful.🙂

How bad did the Big Did turn out to be?

Don't know until they get the damn thing to stop leaking!


Originally estimated at 2.6 Billion - current estimates over 12.6 billion and rising! :Q

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

Linky work fine here!

Built mostly by private donations and carry's everything (rail, car, utilities, even data lines). Toll roads though.

P.S. Let's hope it turns out better than the "Big Dig"! :Q

That BIG Dig was a catastrophe. Boston needs to invest ITS money into something more plausible and useful.🙂

How bad did the Big Did turn out to be?

Text

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

Linky work fine here!

Built mostly by private donations and carry's everything (rail, car, utilities, even data lines). Toll roads though.

P.S. Let's hope it turns out better than the "Big Dig"! :Q

That BIG Dig was a catastrophe. Boston needs to invest ITS money into something more plausible and useful.🙂

How bad did the Big Did turn out to be?

Don't know until they get the damn thing to stop leaking!


Originally estimated at 2.6 Billion - current estimates over 12.6 billion and rising! :Q

Oh, it's THAT bad!

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky no worky.

Linky work fine here!

Built mostly by private donations and carry's everything (rail, car, utilities, even data lines). Toll roads though.

P.S. Let's hope it turns out better than the "Big Dig"! :Q

That BIG Dig was a catastrophe. Boston needs to invest ITS money into something more plausible and useful.🙂

How bad did the Big Did turn out to be?

There were leaks everywhere, the projects succeded/went over its budget and the taxes paying for the project went from West. Mass which is where I live. A lot of people here are angry for Boston taking their money and using it for not the west mass's benefit but for boston's benefit.🙂
Anyway, it's a local issue.😎

 

[FrustratedUser]

Linky now worky.

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky now worky.

Linky now worky.:laugh:

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally estimated at 2.6 Billion - current estimates over 12.6 billion and rising! :Q

:Q

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Linky now worky.

Linky now worky.:laugh:

🙂

 

[daveshel]

Toll roads: a disturbing notion.

 

[alent1234]

Totally agree with toll roads

I think that they are a nice way to make the users pay for the service directly


On another note, what if peak oil happens right about now and by the time this highway system is built it's going to be useless?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Toll roads: a disturbing notion.

Not really. Yeah, for average motorists tolls suck. But these proposed megahighways are not intended for average motorists, they're targeted at the large scale movement of goods. The idea isn't to charge tolls for people who want to drive from one side of Houston to the other. It's to get the freight haulers off of I-35 and onto a dedicated superhighway so that the smaller ones remain usable for commuter traffic.

It's actually a sound idea since for freight carriers time is money. Saving a couple of hours of bumper-to-bumper jams is worth the cost of the tolls. The problem is that it's not going to happen. It's too big, too unpopular and has too many opponents. You might be able to steamroll the ranchers and homeowners who would lose their land due to eminent domain. There's no way they're going to be able to do that to the major cities who stand to lose traffic and money by people bypassing them. They own the congressmen and the congressmen will do whatever their prime fundraisers want. This project is dead.

 

[gistech1978]

something like 45% of the population of TX lives within 60 miles of I-35

this needs to be done. if nothing else widen I-35 to 6-8 lanes all the way from OK to San Antonio.

 

[Queasy]

I'd hate to be a landowner in Texas where this thing is proposed. Eminent Domain is abused regularly by local and state governments.