Posted on 03/05/2007 7:35:36 AM PST by End Times Sentinel
What a great idea Earni.
He skates around the key issue, but it's clear that his "rebirth" involves closing down the ports and opening casinos.
How's about dredging the river so we can get some really big container ships in here and get more jobs down the waterfront. Somehow, I think being a longshoreman might be a better career choice than being a valet at a casino.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Big Dig Envy
Burying Philly would enhance the waterfront.
The upside is that anyone traveling north on I95 would not have to go through Philthadelphia, which needs to bury a lot more than its highways.
Burying the interstate along the waterfront makes sense. As you say, one question is, how many cities can afford to dump the ports and make their waterfronts into yuppie theme parks?
Also, how much of the tab are my federal taxes going to pick up, even though I don't expect ever to visit Philadelphia again?
maybe they could get the guys from Boston to design and build it too
Why not, the Feds probably have another $ 15B laying around to give to the currupt unions like they did here in Boston for the Big Dig.
You beat me by 25 seconds.
My thoughts exactly.
Maybe they can get the same crack team of people to build their tunnel.
but would it enhance my commute up and down I-95??? That is really the only thing of concern to me. Sorry.
How's about dredging the river so we can "throw in more dead mobsters and gang members."
Just burry philthadelphia, problem solved.
Having lived in Cmbridge MA for much of the past decade (have since moved) I like the idea of the freeway being buried underground, and the proposed rail link between North and South stations It was a dumb idea to cut Boston up like that with some ugly a$$ freeway when they built it in the 1950's. The question is, who should pay and how should it be managed.
Lets get Bechtel in there. They will do the same for Philly as they did for Boston.
Or Baghdad. I think to some degree they have to be blamed for screwing up so many billions of dollars worth of reconstruction contracts.
Besides... it's not his money that will pay for this stuff.
Most people traveling North on I-95 don't go anywhere near Philly. If you're coming through Delaware North toward NYC, you take the Del Mem Br over to the New Jersey Turnpike (which becomes I-95) rather than take I-95 on its roundabout spur towards Philly.
The really crappy contractor from the big dig that had more than their share of quality issues is out of business.
Is that Modern Continental or the other one.
I remember that Modern Continental under bid every other company to haul the dirt away. The other companies said that it was impossible for them to do it that cheaply.
After they won the bid they said "Oops, we under estimated how much it would cost" and they jacked up the price to haul the dirt to more than some of the other companies had bid.
MA is just dirty.
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