If he wants to build roads to relieve congestion or to make it easier for people to get to places they want to go, fine.
But this story makes it seem like he wants to build roads to employ lots of construction workers for a few years and to build into rural areas on the “build it and and they will come” approach to economic development.
“But this story makes it seem like he wants to build roads to employ lots of construction workers for a few years and to build into rural areas on the “build it and and they will come” approach to economic development.”
If they’re toll roads, they probably won’t see much in the way of new development until all other options are exhausted, at least if Houston is any guide.
And, don’t forget the technique of bankrupting ranchers and farmers with unjustified “Eminent Domain” takings of land for public projects— pushing this through crooked courts to do it. Sort of like an asphalt version of Californication’s high speed rail debacle. A money pit.
Florida is a very large agricultural state- with year round growing seasons and huge cattle operations. It doesn’t need more condemnations to build tract homes for liberal democrats and their crappy politics.