Fwd: [mwtranspo] RE: US keeps building new highways while letting old ones crumble

[Greg Buck]

Known for a long time, I imagine. And yet the problem continues.

 

Greg Buck

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From: Thomas & Sandra Tokarski <ca...@bluemarble.net>
Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:42 AM
Subject: [mwtranspo] RE: US keeps building new highways while letting old ones crumble
To: Susan Sammis <sam...@bluemarble.net>

Please post and spread widely:

 

This is a long article but well worth  the time to read. Indiana is not alone in being pulled into a whirlpool of debt it will have a difficult time pulling out of. And I-69 is helping to pull us under. For over 2 decades CARR's motto has been: "Fix the Roads We Have", now lots of other people are saying the same thing. What a shame to destroy one of the most beautiful parts of Monroe Co. and the state for another highway that is not needed and that the state will not have the money to maintain. The world of transportation is changing fast. I-69 is dead weight that is preventing us from building a transportation system for the future.

Thomas Tokarski

 

 

A great story about the pyramid scheme known as highway building just appeared:

 

WASHINGTON — Oil-rich Texas has built more highways and bridges than any other state, but over the next two decades it will fall $170 billion short of what it needs to keep the sprawling network in good repair.

In California, transportation officials estimate that 60 percent of the state’s roads and a quarter of its bridges need to be repaired or replaced, at a projected cost of $70 billion over a decade, some $52 billion more than the available funds.

North Carolina anticipates that it will fall short of keeping its highways in current condition by $22 billion over the next 30 years, and would need more than twice that amount to improve them.

America’s highway system, once a symbol of freedom and mobility envied the world over, is crumbling physically and financially, the potentially disastrous consequence of a politically driven road-building binge.

You can read the rest of the story at: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/03/181506/us-keeps-building-new-highways.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

 

 

 

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