Posted on 04/02/2021 9:20:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
@kylegriffin1
· Mar 30
The White House is expected to unveil a $2.25 trillion infrastructure package.
$650 billion to rebuild U.S. infrastructure
$400 billion to care for the elderly and disabled
$300 billion for housing infrastructure
$300 billion to revive U.S. manufacturing
https://wapo.st/3sy2RlQ
Pile up food and ammo and hunker down. It won’t be long now.
They are building bridges to nowhere.
They will just lop off a mid-section of an elevated expressway and let white travelers fall to their doom
Out of control government is out of control.
The maggots have finished their job on the democrats brain.
I have said it before: the Biden cartel is dedicated to only one thing, and that’s the destruction of America.
Big buckets of graft and skimming are on the table.
As is often the case, these stupid articles are deliberately misleading.
I'm a civil engineer by trade and I am very familiar with the I-81 case in Syracuse. Nobody is looking to take a perfectly good, functional highway and destroy it for the sake of rectifying some kind of problem related to "dividing black neighborhoods." The issue with I-81 is that the highway is old, outdated, and in need of a major rehabilitation or complete reconstruction. It runs through the middle of the city, and anyone who has driven on it knows that it is outdated and functionally obsolete, with many features (tight curves, short ramps and taper lengths, closely-spaced interchanges, etc.) that don't come close to meeting modern design standards.
The City of Syracuse and NYSDOT have spent years looking at options for replacing the highway, and the preferred alternative that has been advanced to preliminary design involves the re-designation of that section of I-81 from an interstate highway to a local business route. The I-481 loop around the east side of the city would then become the "new" I-81 through the region.
In effect, this would help fix one of the dumbest mistakes transportation planners have ever made in modern U.S. history: designing our Interstate Highway System in the 1950s to run through the middle of our major cities instead of bypassing them. By routing these highways through the cities instead of around them, many of these "interstates" have become nothing more than local highways serving local travelers instead of true INTERSTATES.
It's really no different than the similar problems many older cities have faced in recent decades -- including the Central Artery "Big Dig" project in Boston and the Gowanus Expressway replacement project in New York City.
I can’t go to work, there’s that freeway that whitey built and well, you see, it’s also too warm now. Too warm and the roads, man, the roads. They are everywhere.
There is not so much of an African-american community in New Orleans as in other big cities. I lived there. It's different. It is a melting pot of all sorts of inter-racial ethnicity's - white, french, spanish, african-american, whatever.
Getting rid of that raised highway will just add more traffic to the streets below. Not sure how that helps anyone.
Most the time, it is impossible to ‘reconnect neighborhoods’. Once they have been torn apart by new freeways, buildings and developments, they stay torn apart.
People adapt and accept it or move away if they can.
You usually cannot reverse infrastructural ‘progress’ after the fact. It’s tied to economic realities more than just race. Everyone has seen it.
Sometimes gentrification is the most practical response to a dying neighborhood. Google in San Francisco is dealing with this now. Many residents of that area don’t like seeing non residents bussed in for high dollar jobs.
I am totally fine with money going to this kind of work, rebuilding, restructuring whatever. As long as thats actually where the money goes. There needs to be better accountability for the spending of our hard earned money. Not like Solyndra who got millions and then shut down.Somebody should have had to pay with jail time for stuff like that.
I cant disagree with you.
I say close off all access to all cities that are democrat controlled and let them suffer.
Let those roads become so that nobody can drive on them. No delivery trucks, no nothing.
If anyone REALLY, wants to see what happens when Democrats control a city for years, just take a trip to Detroit Mi and drive around below 8 mile road.
They (democRATS) will slit their own throats for power.
White lines are racist. Paint them all black.
And Yellow Lines, they make fun of Asian People.
And Red lights make fun of Native Americans.
It just might slow down the Communist Chinese Tanks a tiny bit when they invade US Cities.
If you were designing the system from scratch, you wouldn’t run through or around cities, you’d run to one of the other side of cities.
Through - develops the problem you describe
Around - increases inter-city distance by pi times the straight-line distance
Think of the downtown part of a large city to be something of a pedestrian mall; conducive to local traffic only
Some engineers were having a discussion about what kind of engineer designed the human body. One of them insisted the nervous system proves that it was designed by an electrical engineer, while another said the endocrine system proves it was designed by a chemical engineer, etc. The discussion continued until someone mentioned that the female body was undoubtedly designed by a civil engineer. After all, who else would route a waste disposal line through a recreational area?
If the maggots were relying on Democrat brains for sustenance, they died of starvation.
Similar ideas were bounced around in Oakland, CA over the Nimitz freeway which supposedly was the source of all ills of North Oakland's negro-black-african-american residents. But the problems predated the freeway. And did not resolve when it was removed after sections fell in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
The typical democrat public works project will focus on vote buying and funneling money to their political machine. This is just “smoke & mirrors.”
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