[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

There is a paywall involved with this article.

[morphing libertarian]

I-4 across central florida, an interstate. LOL

[Balding_Eagle]

Similar to Denver I-70, maybe worse.

I often wonder how, why, this done without eminent domain.

[Cobra64]

Meanwhile, Kushner wants to send $50 billion to Pakistan.

[W.]

Holy Toledo! :)

[stinkerpot65]

The press has whining about this for 50 years. Roads get old, they get rebuilt. Life goes on.

What they really despise is freedom to travel.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Article had a correction on May 29, 2019.

PING.

[thoughtomator]

Fun fact: Roads with fewer illegal aliens driving on them wear out at a slower rate!

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Well isn’t that just fabulous. All the energy that should be going to building REAL THINGS are now spent on building elaborate paywalls in cyberspace!

[Berosus]

I lived in Orlando for forty years, from 1966 to 2006. Now I’m glad I live elsewhere; the traffic has only gotten worse since I left.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Road project complete and paid off? Keep paying the tolls, Influencers say (6/17/19)

[Paulie]

-—A reconstruction of 21 miles of congested interstate highway through the heart of Orlando will build or rebuild 140 bridges, redesign 15 interchanges, move exits and add new toll lanes, in a $2.3 billion project to smooth traffic through one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities.-—

Assuming that $2.3 billion number is correct, I have to say that is an absolute steal. Where I am that would cost 20 times that amount, and take decades longer to complete.

[ronnie raygun]

Those who are in control are more concerned with illegal immigrants and their families right now. Your roads that get you to work so they can squander and lavish your tax dollars on people who shouldn’t be here is a priority and If you disagree we will shut you down

[ronnie raygun]

Those who are in control are more concerned with illegal immigrants and their families right now. Your roads that get you to work so they can squander and lavish your tax dollars on people who shouldn’t be here is a priority and If you disagree we will shut you down

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

In the fwiw dept, if you are not driving at least 80 mph on I4 between Lakeland and the exit to Disney World, stay in the far right hand lane.

This has been a public service announcement.

5.56mm

[hinckley buzzard]

I-4 was apparently built over fifty years ago. No surprise it will need periodic repair and upgrading to meet changing demands. That’s the way infrastructure is: leaving it as it was built is to invite obsolescence, whether highway, water and sewer system, electrical grid, pipelines, energy generation.

These are critical facilities that you cannot just build and pretend they will last forever.

[Wuli]

My observation is that some places have way more people than is good for them. Smart people should just leave, because “fixing” things in such places often merely leads to even more people moving into the area, making the next “fix” inevitable.