Posted on 03/05/2007 7:35:36 AM PST by End Times Sentinel
I95 is an eyesore and like many freeways has savaged the surrounding communities.
However if you promise to also bury the Mayor, I'll go along wichchoose... but not too near the river. Pollution.
On the other hand, the Cross Bronx Expressway, a section of I-95, one of the worst roads on the planet, is still one of the least ugly things in the Bronx.
Yep, Modern. I worked for a specialty subcontractor, and Modern wouls sefl-perform the work we specialized in. You could see a clear difference in our work versus theirs. Also, wherever there are major leaks from slurry wall joints, it's in moderns sections, not ours.
I recall being at one bid opening. Modern Continental was 57 million dollars lower than anyone else. That's a lot of fricing money to make up with change orders.
The worst on the whole project are Bechtel/Parsosn Brinkerhoff, though. They were paid for oversight of the wholejob, and they thoroghly sucked. There was no coordination of adjoining contracts and design sections.
BTW, who is the other contractor you are thinking of?
Sad but true. Where has the pride gone in that city?
This is unbelieveable. I think that he wants another "Big Dig". That would create a lot of jobs for about ten years, and in the meantime, they can enjoy the casinos, so the gamblers won't be too inconvenienced trying to get to Atlantic City.
Right. The route you describe is the fastest route between Washington D.C. and New York. The freeway through Philadelphia was designated I-95 for political reasons -- because some influential member in Congress decades ago decided that I-95 would have to pass through Pennsylvania.
Maybe it is time for the feds to give the section of I-95 through Pennsylvania over to state control, since the locals think that they have milked all of the profits they could from it and now see it as a detriment rather than an asset. I don't see why anyone from any other state would object as this section is not integral to the interstate highway system.
Perhaps this meathead would like to come up north and crunch a few of the Big Dig numbers?
Ten years late. 14 billion over budget and a civilian motorist crushed to death.
Don't do it Philly, ten years of construction induced traffic gridlock to ultimately knock 4 or 5 miutes off your commute. fugeddaboutit!
Two words ... "Big Dig!"
Like Boston and its "big dig" boondoggle, Philly is another liberal town, with another "government is the savior" solution, with another construction-black-hole to keep the politicians' union backers employed and the peoples money sucked up.
If the I-95 location is really and truly so horrendous, then run it right through the Philadelphia city offices or one of the local college campuses - needless real estate that the people already own in both cases and cheaper than burying it underground.
Or finally building the intersection with I-76. When's that supposed to be finished?
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