Posted on 07/10/2016 8:13:18 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dear Gov. Hogan, Rep. Delaney, Rep. Shuster … somebody:
I'm Andy Bruns, and I run The Herald-Mail. I need to tell you something disturbing about myself.
At least 10 times a week, I put a bullet in the revolver, spin the cylinder, put the gun to my head and pull the trigger. One of these days, the gun will go off. My friends and family will be devastated, and my children will be fatherless. No, I’m not suicidal. I, along with thousands of others in the region, simply commute to work on Interstate 81. The gun is only a metaphor, but the reality is no less deadly.
What will finally get your attention so you do what's necessary to ease the congestion with more lanes? It seems to me that we’ve lost enough lives on this stretch of highway. I know I’m being overly dramatic, overly cynical, and likely overly critical as there are other factors. But I honestly don’t know what else to do, and we have to do something — and quickly.
I know people drive too fast. I know there are a lot of trucks. I know we could write more tickets. I know we could be less distracted. I know we could always wear seat belts. I know all these things. We should address each one of them. But I also know that I-81 has way too much traffic for only two lanes in each direction.
Sweat and concrete, that’s all we’re asking for. It’s not too much to ask, because we’re paying for it with our lives. A week ago today, 21-year-old Jasmine Renee Rafter was tragically taken from us when the combination of rush-hour traffic and the steady flow of commerce once again produced a deadly result.
Let’s make this beautiful soul the last we lose before at least committing funds to widening the entirety of I-81 in Maryland. Although $45 million has long been set aside to widen the bridges over the Potomac River and the short distance north to the first exit in Maryland, there are miles more to go with no money in sight. The languid pace of highway construction and legislative oversight already doom us to wait years from the time dollars are allocated.
Andy Bruns,
Publisher, The Herald-Mail
;)
gotta run - my son - ‘tucker’ just beeped in - just getting out of NJ - argghh
BTW - I can actually hear the difference of the tires on the road when he enters a democrat run state! the roads are THAT bad - all that money people pay for the roads - never seems to make it ‘for the roads’ -
Republican run states - great roads.... (Same with big cities: Dem-run, Detroit personified. )
RE:I-81 near Scranton/W-Barre...Why so many crashes involving drivers going N in S-bound lane and vice- versa? Construction? Poor lighting??
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I drive this section of I-81 and he’s right, it’s deadly. It needs to be widened through Hagerstown and 20 miles further to the PA border. Tired of seeing all the traffic deaths in this area. It seems none of the dead are important enough to grab the governor’s attention.
the free market solution - add a toll to the overused highway.
free stuff will always be overused.
I agree. I-70 intersection onto the already narrowed I-81 is part of the problem. Short on and off ramps at all the local exits don’t help anything either! It’s poorly designed.
I think every road in Delaware has been rebuilt or resurfaced since Biden became VP.
Used to be Maryland had great roads until O'Malley found how easy it was to raid the Transportation Fund.
I agree with you—but the bigger point is that the politicians take billions of OUR money and NEVER put it in infrastructure-(for OUR use). They use hundreds of thousands of OUR money to make themselves millionaires and billionaires (and their children), as they create millions of lazy, dumb teenagers who will be steeped in dept and demoralized completely (exp. if white males) so they are WORTHLESS and don’t know how to WORK (read Booker T. Washington’s Autobiography about WHAT people have to do to grow up to be moral and self-reliant (not a Slave).
The SYSTEM-——is a Leviathan—to produce SLAVES. And they spend billions to investigate why lesbians are ugly and fat and how to prevent HIV when males keep sodomizing each other to make their homosexual “friends” (themselves) filthy wealthy and promote slaves (vice is slavery).
Government agencies(IRS) are unconstitutional and promote theft (Marxism/Socialism (irrational evil religions), destroy the Constituton (Christian Ethics) and creates Rule of Man.It is misuse of money (twisting laws to make judges and lawyers into our “gods”—deciding “Law” —arbitrating right and wrong to DESTROY Objective Truth (our Constitution) which destroys work ethic in EVERYONE—even the “gung ho” business man like Trump, who has to bribe evil people like Hillary to be able to work in NYC or to “speak”. The system is RIGGED by MARXISTS and the SHACKLES have to be taken OFF.
The SYSTEM has to be DESTROYED as it is and will destroy the minds and ethics of our children. (with help of the mass indoctrination system to make Evil into Good (to make Western Civ (Christianity) into irrational, evil tribalism (puerile satanist/paganist cultures). We produces DUMB, IGNORANT narcissists and then we WONDER “WHY” our infrastucture is not there:
Got a HINT-—the Left is tearing DOWN America (”grinding it down”) so our offspring are so demoralized, in debt, trapped, can’t afford children, are drugged, can’t commit to a family, a future, so the Marxists can create a NWO (totalitarian WORLD, so they control ALL food (all reproduction allowed), ALL MONEY and ALL INFORMATION (which is almost COMPLETE now with evil google/facebook/twitter, etc. all controlled by a few psychopathic sodomites, who will control ALL perceptions of our children-—what is “good and evil”.
Cicero stated that Wisdom is discerning “Good and Evil”. We have a generation being programmed to “think” that slavey is good and boys are girls and sodomizing others is a virtue and killing your own genetic offspring is “good”. That is satanism (a religion) which is being FORCED into the SCHOOLS-—mass indoctrination systems to force your children into irrationality-—removal of Reason so they can never think critically or be moral human beings (Western Civ is impossible for Inca (tribal) Mindsets).
Wittgenstein: Whomever controls Words/Language/Images will control the beliefs/desires and the WORLDVIEW of the people-—esp. the CHILDREN that are removed from the Natural Family and in front of screens to produce artificial emotions which destroys integration of the brain (brain function) and destroys “thinking for self” and individualism—thinking outside the box. They CAN’T “think”. They were programmed like Pavlov’s dog. Our skools are designed to destroy Western Civ. ————Classical Christian Ideology which is the ONLY ideology which created Free Will and Individual Natural Rights from God). The pschopath satanists want to wipe it from the face of the earth, so State is god-—to get Zuckerman (god) “bots”-—slaves (consumers only) and addicts for the corporations/State/NWO.
Politicians are there to work for US and they do everything to impair us, to control us, to enslave us, to keep us from self-reliance and esp. to embed dependency (slavery/socialism) through the mass indoctrination system of skooling. Pavlov’s system of mass conditioning (Psychological warfare) on our children so they are twisted, dumb, ignorant, slaves of the State.
No Common Sense, no understanding of Reality (Truth) or Self (Identity). Marxism destroys identity in children-—(skooling/conditioning)—they destroy Reality (Natural Law/family) with artificial institutions and removal from that Truth (the family), which will embed warped ideas/emotions, warped loyalties/understandings in little children so they embed irrationality, evil (tribal, irrational) ways to “think”.
The Age of Reason was only possible with Classical Christian curricula-—and homeschooling (or small local schools with Bibles and all ages of children mixed) where individualism and identity (Reality) could be learned naturally, and the Real Life skills could be mastered (true self-reliance) (understanding of Natural Law which is Reason and Logic that created the Age of Reason).
The Constitution is BASED on Natural Law Theory (Objective Truth/God’s Design of Nature (not man’s utopia)). The Marxists are destroying not only those concepts (Logic) in our children-—but rewriting our history so children embed HATE for it and WILL reject it because they are so ignorant of Truth and will remain IRRATIONAL.
OUR money (that of the producers) needs to be used for us, the people (Good—NEVER EVIL)-—not to enrich our masters/bankers and to control and restrict us. Insanity is allowing govt. to take our money and use it to destroy us (control the minds of our own children). That is the SYSTEM and it is SATANISM or Marxism-—whatever-—just not rational and Christian and “Justice” or Constitutional. We need to take back the institutions, particularly the unconstitutional Department of “Education” which is a MANDATORY (lol) indoctrination system to destroy virtue formation in children (and WE pay for it—jokes on us).
Isn't that the truth! In Arizona, Tucson and Pima County are run by Democrats. The roads there are so awful it's an embarrassment.
Might cut down on accidents if they posted some signs that said:
CAREFUL! IDIOT DRIVERS ILLEGAL ALIENS NO DRIVERS ED!
NOR DRIVERS LICENSE NOR INSURANCE EITHER !
and LIKELY DRUNK TOO!
No matter how many lanes you add, they will fill up and crawl during ‘rush hour’. Unless you can find better ways to get people on and off the interstate, traffic will stink. We have 7 lanes each direction on I-75 and it is impossible.
I drive the small stretch of I-81 through Maryland every time I go from Georgia to Connecticut. It is unmemorable. Both I-80 and I-76 in Pennsylvania are far more treachoerous, and I-81 is MUCH worse in Scranton is more miserable/dangerous during rush hour.
If Mr. Burns believes it is that dangerous, he should take alternate routes, the extra time will be worth it.
>Dedicated semi lanes is a good idea, imho.<
They’ll get out of such a lane to pass, so why bother?
I just drove most of the Ohio turnpike and most of the PA turnpike last night. Around 3am it got really fun. The speed limit is 70. Even the semi’s were doing 85.
There was very little traffic and it was actually a fun drive.
Get over it Burns. Treat it like a game and learn to DRIVE, not sit there like a scared little child holding the wheel.
Such a drama queen!
I thought all of the roads were fixed with all of the bailouts!/s
How many people get a license to drive is a mystery to me. It must be that the Moron version is the only test used.
Failure to know the rules of the road. Failure to comprehend that speed limits are not a suggested minimum. Tailgating. Failure to understand what "yield" and "merge" mean. STOP does not mean spin tires on pavement. Lights on when windshield wipers are in operation. Seatbelts usually stop you from being a projectile should you roll over and the doors unlatch. Hey, here's a concept: learn Newton's Laws of Motion....an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Leave your damned cellphone holstered while driving and don't try to write, put on makeup, shave, eat, cook food or have sex while driving 70 MPH down the damned highway.
Simple to fix. Make the MD I-81 stretch a toll road and charge a steep $6-8 toll to cross (actually, it would make more sense to make I-81 from the I-66 merge thru MD a toll road, but that would involve two other states -— the entire stretch is a congested mess). That would do two things: raise hundreds of millions to widen and improve the interstate, and discourage a lot of purely local traffic from getting on I-81 and getting off again three or four miles later instead of staying on local roads. The fewer the people merging into traffic and maneuvering to exit the fewer the accidents. And the improvements would be financed by people who actually benefit (including out-of-staters) instead of Maryland taxpayers who rarely drive the stretch (e.g.,people residing in the eastern shore, etc.).
Of course the publisher of the Hagerstown paper would likely squeal about the the tolls, then.
“What is “prolly” heh heh”
I don’t know why but I find it particularly annoying.
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