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
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.
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.
but would it enhance my commute up and down I-95??? That is really the only thing of concern to me. Sorry.
Just burry philthadelphia, problem solved.
Besides... it's not his money that will pay for this stuff.
I95 is an eyesore and like many freeways has savaged the surrounding communities.
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.