To be fair, this project is a waste. It simply parrallels a free road that already has 55 mph speed limits. The toll road might cut 10 minutes off the trip if that. The money would have been much better spent elsewhere. The article makes it sound like a Hampton Roads project, but we are furious as well and McD was has been so insistent on it against the people’s will, he’s got to be getting kickbacks. It isn’t always republicans=good, democrats=bad.
If McDonnell’s so concerned about the road, why can’t he just widen the existing road to 4 lanes, divided? The traffic counts don’t really seem to justify a toll road, since it wouldn’t pay for itself.