King Coal Highway Authority asking for funding (Bluefield, Welch: schools, centers)
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Every year they go up to Washington and pretty much get shot down 95% of the time. Hopefully they can at least secure funding to extend the Highway from the twin bridges to no where to Airport Road and at least have a useable segment of highway in Mercer County. Everytime I drive by those two bridges it pisses me off. King Coal Highway is making great strides in Mingo County though.
I don't understand why they would request $20 million for the KCH/CFX Interchange when the roadbed for the interchange has been built and its goin to be 20-40 years before either set of highways actually reach Welch.
Here is the Bluefield Daily Telegraph article on the funding request.
Every year they go up to Washington and pretty much get shot down 95% of the time. Hopefully they can at least secure funding to extend the Highway from the twin bridges to no where to Airport Road and at least have a useable segment of highway in Mercer County. Everytime I drive by those two bridges it pisses me off. King Coal Highway is making great strides in Mingo County though.
I don't understand why they would request $20 million for the KCH/CFX Interchange when the roadbed for the interchange has been built and its goin to be 20-40 years before either set of highways actually reach Welch.
Here is the Bluefield Daily Telegraph article on the funding request.
I hope this gets funding but Im not expecting much from the Obama administration and his liberal agenda. If at the same time some mass transit folks are demanding more funding for the New York subway or the Chicago El guess where Obama will send that money?
I hope this gets funding but Im not expecting much from the Obama administration and his liberal agenda. If at the same time some mass transit folks are demanding more funding for the New York subway or the Chicago El guess where Obama will send that money?
Funding for a mass transit project in Arlington was just shot down. In addition, mass transit typically serves population centers that contain more people than the entire state of West Virginia, hence the disproportionate funding by population. If you look at funding per capita, you'd find that the federal government gives a whole lot more to rural areas.
If only schools had been better funded, we might not have to listen to ignorant statements like the one above. You should skip WV and just make the full transition to a double wide in Alabama.
I hope this gets funding but Im not expecting much from the Obama administration and his liberal agenda. If at the same time some mass transit folks are demanding more funding for the New York subway or the Chicago El guess where Obama will send that money?
The Chicago El & NYC subway serve tens of millions of people.
The KCH will serve ~100,000 - 120,000
The funding they're requesting is greatly disproportionate to the amount of people the project will serve.
Also, WV already receives more than $1 for each dollar we send to Washington; actually if my memory is serving me rightly, WV has on of the highest ratios in the nation in that regard.
Any good fiscal conservative would want this project killed
I hope this gets funding but Im not expecting much from the Obama administration and his liberal agenda. If at the same time some mass transit folks are demanding more funding for the New York subway or the Chicago El guess where Obama will send that money?
I don't know why you think it is necessary to keep poking your right wing agenda into the WV forum, but it does occur to me that you are going to be miserable in the liberal atmosphere at UC. It's going to be fun to watch.
I wasn't sure if it would be best to start a new thread or rekindle this one, but here goes. Above is a link to a story about the King Coal Highway Authority recently getting approval to approve a contract for work in Mercer County. From the story; "The project will transition the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere” in Bluefield to the “bridge to somewhere,” as it will link Route 460 at John Nash Boulevard to Airport Road with a 3.8-mile extension."
I bring this up because my new position at work allows me, and is also a requirement, to travel around the region. Today, I found myself in Mingo and Logan counties and I traveled the partially completed portion of the King Coal Highway between Gilbert and Delbarton. It has been at least 4 years, if not a little longer, since I traveled the area and that stretch of road. Sadly, it appears the same as it did then. I encountered quite a few pick-up trucks towing an ATV or side-by-side and had even more road going all-terrain vehicles pass me on Rt 52 as they made their way between trail heads and such. Of course, this makes a person wonder what could be, in terms of tourism, for the area. Regarding that, a timber-trek and zip-line operation, similar to those in the New River Gorge, seems like a natural fit to the area. Especially if one would utilize the ridge tops along the completed section of road.
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