Just to remember … this is what they started with.
be still my heart!
Isn't it weird that Private Companies gets it done faster, better, and cheaper than than K-Dot or M-Dot or all those other Hiked Government Toll Roads!?
One shudders to think of all the useless studies; payoffs to special interests, etc; THAT WERE NOT DONE to get this done quickly.
The normal things are normally done which probably double an triple the cost and timeframes.
Not familiar with this. Are they putting up toll booths?
When I was a kid, we had a key county road wash out in our area. The local farmers couldn't wait for the wheels of bureaucracy to reopen it.
Our local representative (a farmer himself) organized the locals to show up the very next Saturday with their tractors and got the section of the road rebuilt in one afternoon. The wives and smaller kids brought tables, chairs and food so they could keep working. The bigger kids assisted with buckets, picks and shovels.
About three months later, the state got around to inspecting the work, proclaimed it a job well done and paved it over to finish it. And the happy and unexpected ending: every farmer who showed up to work that day had signed in and got about $200 off the next property tax bill.
We took 29 south to St Jo last weekend, and it was in good shape, only a couple areas where it was 2 lanes instead of 4, one of which was Hamburg, which was anticipated.
I really think one of the KEY reasons they could do these repairs so quickly is that the roads were completely closed while the work was being done, so they didn’t have to do that one-lane-at-a-time with crossovers and all. Probably made a big difference.
Just to remember … this is what they started with.