Posted on 04/29/2021 10:31:06 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ll study it for half that!.......................
Work to widen parts of the Turnpike, Parkway take first step forward (3/23/21)
PING!
Did I read that correctly? $48 million for 34 miles of an additional lane (or 2? One in each direction?) and will take 5 years?
Looks Like a Great idea, I see no problems, the people need it,...
Send my Check for $24 million Please, 1/2 OFF!!
$48 Million JUST TO STUDY the idea!
LOL. I knew bureaucracy was bad. I didn’t know it was that bad!
I don’t see the need since cars will be pretty much verboten in the next 5 years.
So much for Biden’s $227.314 TRILLION so-called *infrastructure investments* ... the Greenie Marxists wouldn’t even let you cut the lawn in your own front yard, much less allow an expansion of a major highway
That's 10 miles per hour ... you're lucky at moving that fast !!!
Try being stuck on the Cross Bronx Expressway, 6 miles long, for over an hour and a half ... that's less than 4 miles per hour, and there isn't any obstruction either, just *normal traffic* .... yep, and slo-Joe is gonna fix all this, right ???
I’ve traveled the NJTP many times once being a resident. The area being widened is no more than a two lane country road at present which is ridiculous for what is a major interstate artery in the Nations most densely populated State.
For all of its leftist politics, New Jersey ain't run by stupid people. They've fast-tracked many of their highway projects by using bonds backed by toll revenues to finance them. This allows them to get the projects done without Federal money, so they can circumvent the Federal environmental review process.
Since everyone will be driving ELECTRIC CARS once these projects are finished, why are they objecting to them?
(and if you don’t know the answer, you need to learn a bit more about who this country’s enemies are and just what they REALLY want)
Yep, just the “study” To paraphrase an old joke about Jersey public works, “twenty million for you, twenty million for me and eight million for the dorks doing the study!”
Because it's a road like the New Jersey Turnpike running through developments built right up to the roadway edge, they can't build temporary lanes alongside the active lanes but instead have to do all the work on the active roadway. It's like renovating your house while living in it every day.
All that above is just for the roadway and connecting roadways. Add in nearby rail lines and crossing rail lines and it's a whole other level of pain.
Never thought I would say it, but, I miss the halcyon days when you could drive through much of that s_hole state in a thick red fog of stinking smoke with the headlights on and your eyes burning...
NYC flushed its toilet and dumped its trash directly onto about 20-miles of the open NJ marshlands for burning or burial... Even Jimmy Hoffa is still out there somewhere...
Who would have thought that things could have gotten far worse for NJ in the coming decades...
You have to remember that NJ spends per mile for road construction then anyone. Lot’s of people at the trough.
In the time it takes to do the “study” the Chinese will build entire highway systems.
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