Posted on 12/24/2020 3:42:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Proponents have called the state’s massive new toll road project a monumental opportunity and a thoughtful plan for smart growth. The 330 miles of new highways will curb interstate congestion, bolster the economy and facilitate hurricane evacuations, they say. In short, the argument goes, the roads would be a good investment. So why is it that so many of the preliminary studies are at best lukewarm on the idea? And the latest reports only add to the list of reasons to reconsider the controversial project.
The tolls roads, dubbed the Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance, were largely pushed by politicians, not transportation planners. The project calls for extending the Suncoast Parkway from Lecanto in Citrus County to the Florida-Georgia state line and linking the Suncoast to the Florida Turnpike. The third leg — 140 miles between Collier and Polk counties — resembles the former Heartland Parkway proposal. Two Republican governors already killed the Heartland plan and the Department of Transportation found in 2015 that it wouldn’t attract enough drivers to pay for the cost.
Still, former state Senate President Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, championed M-CORES last year, successfully pushing it through the Legislature with an ambitious completion date of 2030. The exact routes of the three roads are yet to be determined and the price tag is equally squishy, though by some estimates just the Suncoast extension would cost at least $4 billion and potentially more than $10 billion.
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Florida's plan to build 330 miles of new toll roads (April 27, 2020)
These idiots haven’t had to escape a hurricane up I75 or I95. That piece of turnpike that doesnt make money doesn’t go anywhere at this time.
“The tolls roads, dubbed the Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance”
How much did it cost Florida to get that terminology?
Seems money would be better spent building a wall to keep out those New York liberals and Californians.
That is certainly worth considering
PING!
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“The tolls roads, dubbed the Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance”
The “MUCORES” Pronounced MUK-or-ess. It just rolls off the tongue.
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