Posted on 04/12/2004 6:31:13 AM PDT by TaxRelief
(For education and discussion purposes, only)
A research group funded by road builders called Wednesday for more state highway spending to avert a costly increase in accidents, travel delays and wear-and-tear on everyone's cars.
[One local planning organization says highways account for only 52 percent of the transportation spending needed in the Durham and Chapel Hill area by 2025, with 44 percent earmarked for rail and bus transit.]
North Carolina has failed to repair and expand its highway network quickly enough to keep pace with growing passenger and truck traffic and crumbling roads and bridges...
(snip) Citing census and highway statistics, the TRIP report said:
* Highway traffic in the state increased by 48 percent from 1990 to 2002, much faster than the 26 percent population growth. Traffic is expected to increase another 50 percent by 2020, reaching 140 billion vehicle miles of travel.
* The average North Carolina commuter spent 24 minutes driving to work in 2000, 4.2 minutes longer than in 1990. That added up to about 35 hours spent sitting in traffic that year.
* About 12 percent of the state's highways were rated as poor and needing repaving in 2002, and 12 percent of its bridges were rated structurally deficient.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsobserver.com ...
You've been hearing that highway repair and construction funds are being diverted, but this is a statistic you can use in your discussions.
The Moretti/TRIP report (Warning: Report is intended to be leftist money grab)
Milazzo of the Regional Transportation Alliance (Good info buried in the .pdf files on the site)
Boondoggle.
Ridiculous.
Unneeded.
Nobody will ride it.
Regional Rail Project
Maybe the most ridiculous idea EVER conceieved by a human being.
multi-modal system of mobility resources
Because they can't call it what it really is.........LOL.!!!
This is what I was talking about the other day in the "Why Starve Mass Transit?" thread.
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