DANG!
This sounds like one of those empty cities in China, built but never meant to be occupied. Built just to provide long term employment to several thousand people, and bragging rights for the politicians who made it all happen.
This is Pennsylvania.
I live here.
Union workers need jobs for a lifetime.
Looks like they’re getting it.
The original 180 miles of the Penn Tpke, from Carlisle to Butler was completed in just over 2 years. Not just making some of the deepest cuts east of the Rockies through the Alleghenys Mtns, but of the original 7 Tpke tunnels, 4 were part of a bankrupt, abandoned RR built by Cornelius Vanderbilt in the 1880’s that were refurbished and stabilized, the rest were were all new construction. And it was one of the few gov’t projects that was completed ahead of schedule and UNDER BUDGET. An amazing feat considering the technology available in the 1930’s. I see the same thing here in FL. Relatively simple road widening projects taking years to complete, as if the workers and engineers are making carreers out of them.
And thusly why i want the Army Engineers building our border barrier instead.
H-3 in Ohau from Honolulu to Kaneohe Bay is believed to be the most expensive Interstate Highway ever built, on a cost per mile basis. Its final cost was $1.3 billion, or approximately $80 million per mile.
When it first hit the drawing boards in 1963, the estimated cost of the 16-mile H-3 freeway was $50 million to $70 million. The scheduled completion date was 1972. When completed in June, 1997, it will have cost $1.3 billion.
They should tear it all down and tell the people to use mass transportation (as they call it in the Northeast). Then Global Warming will end and we will be in peace and love with nature.
The construction on I-95 will NEVER EVER be complete.
That’s why the traffic cone is Pennsylvania’s state tree.
Kind of like I-75 going through Cincinnati....been under construction for over 30 years and never seems to change....
Two decades ago, I dated a woman whose father was one of the original contractors on the Interstate system. According to him, as she told it, the Interstates were designed to be continuously rebuilt, to keep them up to current and future standards. They were NOT designed to be or become commuter roads to funnel workers from suburbs to urban centers and back twice a day.
Unions like perpetual construction.
Union motto: ‘The longer you take, the more you make.’
Make it a toll road and it can be done in four years.