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Actually, it could cost up to $123 billion, or who knows how much? It's a 25-year plan that includes making new highways to Morehead City to Hampton Roads and so on in an effort to make transportation more efficient and stimulate jobs as a result. It probably will get the former done easier than the latter - how many hurting towns and counties already exist on Interstates 95, 40, 85 and so on? While it sounds attractive (and financially unfeasible), this plan will not correct what the ailing counties and cities in North Carolina really need - better education to prepare children for future jobs; a bigger variety of cultural options than most have at present; and a general attitude of letting go of the past and working toward the future. Just my opinion, of course.
.... - better education to prepare children for future jobs; a bigger variety of cultural options than most have at present; and a general attitude of letting go of the past and working toward the future. Just my opinion, of course.....
Government is well suited to build roads. They have been doing so since Roman times. NC is doing quite well now in part because of the transit corridors, including the investments in the NC Railroad.
On the other hand, if as you suggest, they are incapable of building roads, then they certainly can't do the more nebulous things that you suggest such as changing people's attitudes and getting them to accept responsibility for their education & future. That is up to the people to do and ironically seem less able to do, the more that government intrudes and tries to do it for them.
I like that Eastern North Carolina is represented by a big picture of a tobacco field. Tobacco, Crop For the Future!! (Are we going to bring back the government subsidies for tobacco? If so, can I sign on now? I missed out on that free money last go 'round)
We're going to build an interstate to Hampton Roads, VA. I'm not sure if we're annexing Virginia or if we just thought we should extend our hand in friendship and build 30 or 40 miles of interstate for them.
And to get everything started, we need to borrow somewhere around a billion to a billion and a half dollars. Debt is good, right??
I like that Eastern North Carolina is represented by a big picture of a tobacco field. Tobacco, Crop For the Future!! (Are we going to bring back the government subsidies for tobacco? If so, can I sign on now? I missed out on that free money last go 'round)
We're going to build an interstate to Hampton Roads, VA. I'm not sure if we're annexing Virginia or if we just thought we should extend our hand in friendship and build 30 or 40 miles of interstate for them.
And to get everything started, we need to borrow somewhere around a billion to a billion and a half dollars. Debt is good, right??
Oh goody! An interstate to Hampton Roads! I 85 is a total of 4 lanes through my town & if there's an accident they detour the I 85 traffic through downtown. It's so important to build an interstate to Hampton Roads, though.
Southbound, what town do you live in? Construction on the next leg of I-85 should be starting soon. This will widen I-85 from Exit 55 to Exit 63 in Cabarrus and Rowan. This only leaves the small gap in-between Exits 63 to 68, but that has also been funded for construction.
Oh goody! An interstate to Hampton Roads! I 85 is a total of 4 lanes through my town & if there's an accident they detour the I 85 traffic through downtown. It's so important to build an interstate to Hampton Roads, though.
You mean a direct Interstate from the Triangle to the 2nd largest (15 largest in the US) and 5th (28th in the US) largest seaport on the East Coast is something bad? Not to mention linking us to the largest city in Virginia.
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Southbound, what town do you live in? Construction on the next leg of I-85 should be starting soon. This will widen I-85 from Exit 55 to Exit 63 in Cabarrus and Rowan. This only leaves the small gap in-between Exits 63 to 68, but that has also been funded for construction.
Kings Mountain. I 85 drops to 3 lanes in each direction through Gaston County then drops to 2 lanes to the state line at exit 10. Gaston has been trying to get I 85 widened for years. The state would prefer a dumb toll road to meander through southern Gaston instead. It would serve no purpose & no one in their right mind will take it.
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You mean a direct Interstate from the Triangle to the 2nd largest (15 largest in the US) and 5th (28th in the US) largest seaport on the East Coast is something bad? Not to mention linking us to the largest city in Virginia.
Think a little outside of the box.
Do you consider that to be more important than the route to Upstate SC & Atlanta? When there's an accident they funnel the traffic through the downtown of my town. Would you like a parade of trucks through your town, sometimes for hours?
Do you consider that to be more important than the route to Upstate SC & Atlanta? When there's an accident they funnel the traffic through the downtown of my town. Would you like a parade of trucks through your town, sometimes for hours?
Nearly all interstates in rural areas are two lanes each way, it's the standard; maybe they should rework the detour route, but widening a generally non-congested rural interstate just because it sometimes closes when there are accidents would be ludicrous. So, yeah I do consider a new interstate between two of the fastest-growing metros on the east coast more important.
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