DANG!
DANG!
It’s like they want to PUNISH drivers who don’t use the toll road. In New Jersey they literally doubled the capacity of the Turnpike in about 5 years. They had to build new bridges everywhere bridges existed (probably around 100, and these were SERIOUS bridges). They didn’t ‘start at the north, and work south’ over several millennia, they built ALL of the new bridges at the same time, and then connected up everything, all at the same time.
What the hell is so hard about doing things that way?
When I arrived in Dayton to take a job in 1985, the I-10 curve around Dayton was under construction.
It was still under construction when I retired 31 years later.
We would visit Arizona in the summers and see a freeway begun one summer and completed the next. Shocking difference.
AZ built two major freeways in less than seven years, less time than it took OH to build A SINGLE OFFRAMP at Austin Landing.