The guy who started the thread literally did.
MN they can't, and WI is similarly progressive and anti-automobile.
You are implying rounds are a conspiracy to drive people off the roads and don't even try to deny it. And your implication is insane.
And having a brother who was a civil engineer and District Chief in the MN Highway Dept, I think I'm relying on pretty good authority on what I said.
The environmentalists in MN have long wanted to pull people out of cars and into light rail. They've managed to build a short one from downtown to the airport. Except for a base of common sense outside the metro area, they'd be swimming in rail lines and debt.
You really need to get out of Kansas to see what silly things the liberals want to do. I'm amazed that you could read FreeRepublic and still believe that there isn't a lot of insanity out and around in the liberal states.
A better example of such insanity: Gov Florio in NJ raised taxes on the sale of big rig trucks in NJ, so they were thousands of dollars above the taxes in PA, or NY, etc. The entire business of selling big trucks collapsed, businesses closed, salesfolks were let go. The tax revenues were negative. Yet Gov Florio insisted that he could not remove the tax unless another tax was substituted to replace the revenue to be lost when the truck tax was removed. Since there was no revenue from the truck tax, and lost revenue from income tax, this was an insane request.
So thinking that the environmentalists who want us to give up cars (and really, do I have to find links to prove that this is true?) would engineer roads and actually encourage congestion to make that happen?
Why that's exactly what happened here in NJ. We introduced car pool lanes on a couple of highways to speed things up. But due to demographics and travel constraints (both source and destinations were diffuse), car pooling is not effective and congestion got a lot worse while the car pool lane stayed empty.
It was a long fight to get rid of the car pool lanes. Some politicians wanted to keep it to force people to change their lives so that car pooling made sense, and some wanted to keep it just for the money from tickets for single drivers in the car pool lane. Insanity and corruption.