01-31-2019, 02:43 PM
(01-31-2019, 02:38 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: It's unlikely that they can finish the project in a year and a half. That timeline is pretty generous assuming they pass it tomorrow and it only takes 6 months to get the project started. It'll likely take longer to just get it started.
Alternatively, investing the same money in local, state, and interstate infrastructure would create jobs across the country and improve the economies of many states.
Shoot, Virginia alone is about to drop a little over $2B on one interstate: https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/roanoke/the-future-of-i-81-everything-thats-wrong-with-our-biggest-highway-and-how-to-fix-it
We still have the bills working their way through on how to pay for it. While I-81 is an interstate in rougher shape than most, it isn't even the most critical infrastructure project in the country, I guarantee. We really should be spending that money on our infrastructure rather than a worthless symbol.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
