[muawiyah]

Through residential districts? I'd drop it down to 25 MPH. That almost eliminates the tire sounds from both cars and trucks. That would also reduce the traffic flow standard to a point where diversion onto other systems would occur.

No doubt that would heighten public interest in how and where their highways are routed. Tightening 5th Amendment standards a bit I'd pay triple the highest market price in the last 20 years for any residential property within 1 mile of the highway and allow those folks to move out with dignity.

One of the things the black activists who first opposed downtown Interstates didn't notice was that the preliminary routing that took those highways through old innercity neighborhoods had their start out in the suburbs where planners sought to avoid higher priced commercial property.

Basically corporate interests pushed a good deal of the environmental burden these highways created off on strictly residential areas filled with women, children and their own employees ~

Oh, yeah, and stop lights every 1/2 mile through any area with residentially zoned property.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

In other words, it would cease being an interstate, which is apparently what you have in mind. I’d hate to see what you’d do to the railroad tracks near where I used to live.