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Old 05-13-2013, 09:55 PM
 
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On another forum, an idea of creating a regional road authority with the power to impose a gas tax for the sole purpose of building roads in North Alabama was tossed around. I wonder how realistic that idea is.
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:37 AM
 
Location: Huntsville
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all the more reason to build the roads that have been planned for DECADES so we don't have a highway 280.
A perfect example of an inept reactive highway dept.
University Drive to Athens is quickly becoming a 280 look a like

Exactly, Just for once I would love to see leadership be ahead of the curve and not 10 years behind as usual.
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Old 05-14-2013, 12:12 PM
 
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still no list from the rest of the state. Only plans for a meeting on a new interchange in Calera, and the I-20/59 overhaul through Birmingham. All deserving and needed projects, why does Huntsville have to constantly beg and deal to get 15+ year planned projects underway. Why does aldot hold this region hostage?
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Old 05-14-2013, 07:43 PM
 
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still no list from the rest of the state. Only plans for a meeting on a new interchange in Calera, and the I-20/59 overhaul through Birmingham. All deserving and needed projects, why does Huntsville have to constantly beg and deal to get 15+ year planned projects underway. Why does aldot hold this region hostage?
Kindly, you are not being realistic. All areas of this state wait ten to forty years for all projects from first being mentioned to actually seeing any work done at all. Then the standards of the work would not be accepted in most other states. Don't make this region against region it isn't. We are all on Montgomery wellfare.

raj
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:13 PM
 
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Kindly, you are not being realistic. All areas of this state wait ten to forty years for all projects from first being mentioned to actually seeing any work done at all. Then the standards of the work would not be accepted in most other states. Don't make this region against region it isn't. We are all on Montgomery wellfare.

raj
clearly you have not lived here very long, where are the projects that are being delayed in the rest of the state? No other city in this state works harder to appease the highway department and even pay more than they should than Huntsville and yet it has been proven fewer dollars are spent here for the taxes paid.
Huntsville is behind the the other major cities by 25 years
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Madison, AL
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clearly you have not lived here very long, where are the projects that are being delayed in the rest of the state? No other city in this state works harder to appease the highway department and even pay more than they should than Huntsville and yet it has been proven fewer dollars are spent here for the taxes paid.
Huntsville is behind the the other major cities by 25 years
Well Huntsville is still in Alabama, so that will always hold us back a bit more than other cities our size...

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Old 05-14-2013, 11:12 PM
 
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Well Huntsville is still in Alabama, so that will always hold us back a bit more than other cities our size...

Maybe we could secede and Tennessee could annex us... Too bad there is already a Huntsville Tennessee.
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Old 05-15-2013, 10:58 AM
 
Location: Madison, AL
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Interesting tid bit.

Bham FBI office is moving its main operation to HSV, in the near future.

So Bham is loosing a little more to HSV.

I'd say the tide is turning, but it already has...
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Old 05-15-2013, 12:07 PM
 
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Interesting tid bit.

Bham FBI office is moving its main operation to HSV, in the near future.

So Bham is loosing a little more to HSV.

I'd say the tide is turning, but it already has...
Come on Dave, this is not worthy of you. I know you don't post anything that blows by. You do know that the FBI just finished a new building downtown in Birmingham three years ago.

I think you are referring to a task force that is being settup for an operation in Huntsville that can easily be brought up online. (came out in March)

I think you guys are so out in the middle of nowhere that you lose touch. Birmingham and central Alabama are not going to evaporate so that Huntsville can be more than a govt. town. (wasn't Huntsville the capitol once)

Anyway, have fun, it is good to dream. How's Constellation coming? lol

raj
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Old 05-15-2013, 12:10 PM
 
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clearly you have not lived here very long, where are the projects that are being delayed in the rest of the state? No other city in this state works harder to appease the highway department and even pay more than they should than Huntsville and yet it has been proven fewer dollars are spent here for the taxes paid.
Huntsville is behind the the other major cities by 25 years
You may not know that the urban areas all lose taxes to the rural areas. It's part of the way a 1900 constitution works. I hope you can fix that then we can keep our thirty percent share of state funding.

raj
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