[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

More (super)corridors...

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[calex59]

Oh, yeah, taxing the hell out of people and calling it fees always makes the congestion go away!

That's big government for you, don't build more airports and more roads, just add fees, these will instantly open new places to land planes, make more ports available for shipping and have the affect of new roads sprining up across the country. I can't wait!

[taxcontrol]

I have a friend in the transportation industry, his comments were essentially that we need 4 new major shipping ports that can handle deep water cargo vessels.

But it is my understanding that there simply are no more places to put in such ports without significant resettlement of large chunks of cities.

Any Freepers have insights?

[Publius]

It's starting to look like the TANSTAAFL essay was prophetic.

[newgeezer]

$6/gallon would fix any such congestion problems.

[wolfcreek]

I like the idea of shipping goods on highspeed rails. Give the highways back to the people.

[G.Mason]

" ... With the help of more airline user fees, truck tolls and other types of private fees, government will use "existing transportation networks better and add capacity where it makes the most sense," he said."

How Democratic Party like of them.

[Bigg Red]

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta

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Question 1: Why is that clown still on the job?

[wouldntbprudent]

Hello. The easiest, fastest, cheapest and most efficient way to help traffic congestion is to allow/encourage every single worker who can do his/her job from home, or from neighborhood telecommuting facilities, to do so.

We have the technology. How many workers are sitting in a cubicle and communicating with their office mates in other cubicles by EMAIL anyway?

I sat in an office and emailed my boss back and forth in her office NEXT DOOR. Then when I finished my work product, I emailed it to her for review and she emailed it back with her remarks. Etc. etc. etc. So I had to sit in a cubicle next to her WHY? That story times every employee in the organization.

[TChris]

Mineta needs to resign and go away. What an embarrassment to the Bush administration. (As if it needed further embarrassment.)

[Pessimist]

""Congestion is not a fact of life. We need a new approach and we need it now," he said."

LOL!

This from the guy who insists on TSA workers frisking granny to avoid "profiling" muslims...

[Pessimist]

"three to five 'corridors of the future'"

Maybe they should run north across the Mexican border.

That sure looks like our "future" to me.

[ikka]

How about: every penny that is paid in fuel taxes, Federal, State, etc. ... actually goes to maintaining the roads.

[RodgerD]

At the extreme risk of "hijacking" this thread, I'd just like to note that the plans now afoot to vastly increase migration to this country will not help traffic congestion.

That said, I'd suggest a monorail - like on the Simpsons.