Posted on 02/24/2019 7:31:27 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that Virginia has selected a contractor to build two new tunnels and widen a major highway in Hampton Roads. The $3.3 billion price tag — funded by regional gas and sales taxes, tolls and other sources — makes it one of the two biggest transportation projects in commonwealth history.
Northam (D) touted the deal, saying he is “proud of the hard work and negotiations that have taken place over this past year,” and state Sen. Frank W. Wagner (R-Virginia Beach) in return offered praise for the embattled governor.
“I want to personally thank Governor Northam and his team for making this day possible,” Wagner said in a statement.
The winning consortium, Hampton Roads Connector Partners, is led by the U.S. arm of the Spanish construction firm Dragados. Plans call for a large boring machine to dig under the soft floor of a vital commercial and military channel, a construction method transportation officials said will cut down on disruptions to shipping traffic.
A pair of two-lane tunnels will be added, and Interstate 64’s four lanes will expand to eight during rush hour. The project is slated for completion in November 2025.
The improvements to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel are meant to ease daily snarls in the highly congested stretch between Hampton and Norfolk, which sometimes carries more than 100,000 cars a day. The original two-lane tunnels opened in 1957 and 1976.
“This project will help double capacity. Today, people can get backed up for miles at times. It can be 20, 30, 45 minutes,” Deputy Transportation Secretary Nick Donohue said.
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PING.
The Baby Killer Racist is still in office?
Gosh, now if only he had done something really terrible like sponsor a beer bash as a teenager...
= Taxpayers Pockets
“The $3.3 billion price tag”
That’s why Northam couldn’t leave office just yet. Too many kickbacks to be had...
Seems like a good project. But does it pass the Smollet Test?
Did the company get the contract based on the competitive bidding process? Are there any political ties involved? What company has been selected to audit the project? What ties do they have? What is the environmental impact?
It will be called Black Face Tunnel.
Don’t know but probably not.
The question is how many.
I’m going to speculate one owned by politicians buddies.
Being political a$$hol€ buddies.
Most likely massive but it will be covered up. Or involves more of the above.
Ralph “Coonman” Northam bump for later....
Coonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I’m together with your plan
Coonman!
I'll wager it'll be more like $30.3 billion, by the time it's done.
Forget baby killing, there was a tunnel to be built and money to be made. Most politicians are pure scum.
Why hasn’t this guy been locked up for conspiracy to commit infanticide?
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Can anyone confirm what I heard on the radio?
Somewhere a ruling was made that in a case where a late term pregnant woman is murdered they will no longer count that as two murders because the baby is now ruled to be ok to kill as if choosing to “abort” after the birth occurs.
If true how low can America go? Will they ask for reduced sentences for the crime group under Charles Manson who killed Sharon Tate’s baby by slashing open her womb to get it?
is he the racist or the rapist? I can keep it straight.
“The winning consortium, Hampton Roads Connector Partners, is led by the U.S. arm of the Spanish construction firm Dragados.”
So their RACIST GOVERNOR couldn’t find a minority company to to the work, and instead gave it to a European company? Figures.
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