"and require $10 million a year to operate"to be paid for by, who...
Posted on 12/11/2017 4:43:18 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
vooch has a solution for that. However, only time will tell if such a thing would actually work. Transportation is a hard thing to solve with free markets, for some reason.
My idea would be to rename I-481 around Syracuse as I-81 and widen it to six lanes. At the same time, the original I-81 would become I-81 business (with the green shields instead of RWB) and then the viaduct would be replaced by a boulevard, which was one of the ideas originally being considered.
The widening of the new I-81 route would be to accommodate through traffic that would now desire to speed around the city.
My tax dollars at work. Two million dollars to study an idiotic idea that makes no sense whatsoever on any level other than make-work for the unions. The point of this tunnel would be....what? For better traffic flow thru Syracuse? You can already go around it on I-481. I pass thru here quite often. The few extra minutes on 481 vs. 81 are insignificant and negligible, altho I can’t speak for ‘rush-hour’ traffic on either. And $4.5-billion & 10-years to complete really means $6-billion and 15 years. The I-81 / Route 17 interchange in Binghamton has been under construction over 6 years now without an end in sight. That’s a freekin’ nightmare on weekends when the snowflakes go back to school.
Also, with such a plan, the I-81/I-481 interchange north of the city would need to be modified. Right now, it is a substandard four-leaf clover. High speed connectors between I-81 (future I-81 Business), I-481 (future I-81) and perhaps NY-481 as well would be needed to replace that configuration.
See #22 and #24 for my solution to the problem.
As for tunnels, think Big Dig or that Bertha tunneling machine mess in Seattle.
"and require $10 million a year to operate"to be paid for by, who...
Syracuse’s rush hours last minutes. This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about work for union labor.
Us, silly, who else? :-(
Our view: Tunnel may be the best option for I-81 through Syracuse (12/6)
wonderful...
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Transportation is a hard thing to solve with free markets, for some reason.
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Maybe because we haven’t anything resembling a Free Market for some time
Yes, $3.6 billion is a lot of money, but the federal government can be expected to cover about 80 percent of it.
Expected, huh? Put your expectations in one hand...
As for any remainder, NYS is $4 bil in the hole.
We don't have the expletives-deleted money.
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