PING!
Lol. Nimbys.
I’ve often said that DJT never needed a wall, all he had to do was send a few crews of PA DoT road workers to the southern border and tell them to build a road. They’d be an immediate standstill for years.
Nothing wrong with that road that a few Billion dollars of your and my money wouldn’t fix. Either bridge it out over the river so the rocks will fall between the road and the cliff face, or tunnel through the mountain. Slap on tolls (deep state loves those) and everyone will be happy.
“too tight for traffic congestion during any type of construction”
Any type? construction of ANY kind?
so then, close the road.
Can’t fix it, can’t drive on it, can’t upgrade it, can’t do anything.
Give ‘em all what they ask for.
Wyatt’s Torch burns clean.
Our wonderful state of N.J. just spent 37 mil on a rock wall project on Rte. 46 just east of the area area a few years ago. No one I spoke to could remember a rock falling and causing injury in the their lifetime. The local joke was that someones brother or cousin was down on his luck and needed a big money contract.
As we speak I’m looking out over I-80 here in glorious Placer County, CA. I take comfort that the traffic backup is unlikely to extend this far
Another interstate built on a former railroad roadbed; IIRC, this one’s part of the former New York, Susquehanna & Western main line to Stroudsburg and Wilkes-Barre. Yes, it’s going to be narrower than a typical highway. They did quite a bit of this in New Jersey.
If it is too congested for construction maybe just drop in a miracle bullet train modeled after the successful project going on in California. You don’t need an actual working railroad, just a hold to dump money into.
OTOH, they could use non-union construction crews and eliminate all the bribes to politicians thereby cutting the construction time by 70%, the cost by 70%, and increase the work quality by 300%...
BOOKMARK!
Double deck the highway. Elevate the westbound lanes.