Posted on 09/15/2018 10:47:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
an 8-lane hwy from Casper WY to Idaho Falls
And from Brattleboro VT to Manchester Nh
And Livingston TN to Huntsville AL
Spellchecker is a destructive WMD
Whats the fun in that? My car corners well and is super fun to push it. Straight lines are for those without passion.
We must have had an era of 'parents hanging stupid names on their kids' of which I was totally unaware.
Half the fun of watching college football games these days is to LOL/shake head incredulously at what some of those young people are called.
That and the tens of billions of dollars it would take to fund it.
From the SW tip of CT to the NE tip of CT. With no exits or entrances in CT.
Yes! Many more. I would like one every few miles - East, West, North, South. As long as none of them come closer than 10 miles from my house and town.
I still remember when they were constructing I-10 through Texas back in the 70s... The explosions they did on the nearby hills blew most of our windows out from the concussions (all of our neighborhood) :p
Because Fort Hood.
Yes. A parallel east-west route is a good idea all over.
No one in my area got why M-6 was a good idea— until it had been in place for three years. After all, I-96 looped all around the city with plenty of on/off ramps...
We need the slow pokes to stay in the right hand lane
Exactly, taxpayer money poured down an abyss. Already have I-10 and I-20. The need for another is?
And you make sure that the businesses you’re attracting aren’t radical, liberal, hipster, tech companies that champion the working man, yet demand special tax breaks, then flood your “Pleasant Conservative” place in the world with said, radical, liberal, hipsters, who turn the place into a radical, liberal, hipster hub, IE Austin, Tx, etc.
I’d settle for a decent interstate between Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Ever hear of Fort Hood, the largest military post in the United States?
IH-14 is intended to connect military posts in the south central part of the country to make deployment faster...
We live 1/2 mile from the current IH-14. In order to go east we must first drive 3 hours to get to the closest approach to either IH-10 or IH-20. That same three hours would put us well into Louisiana if IH-14 was in place...
BTW, when President Eisenhower proposed the Interstate system, the major purpose was to enhance military deployment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
The problem with the interstate system is that it was built to connect downtowns to downtowns (in part to evacuate survivors of a nuclear war).
Hitler was smarter. He designed his system to bypass city centers so traffic would move better. (Of course, suburban sprawl has led to rush hour traffic jams (stau) in Germany, but it’s still not as bad as trying to drive cross country in the US.)
As for this plan, they need to go past Killeen to tie into 10 or 20 and add Bliss, and then go east from Benning to add in Fort Gordon, and tie to I-20 (Fort Jackson).
Then they’d have a straight shot cross country from Bliss to Jackson, with the only urban congestion in Columbus and Augusta. (The Columbus - Augusta link could swing through Warner Robbins, if desired).
The route would be a bit north of Polk, and pass near Camp Shelby.
How about a wall along our Southern Border? I mean if they get some extra time.
purpose was to enhance military deployment...
Yes, as well as to provide landing strips.
If they’re going to go out and dig the road themselves with their own funds, then I’m all for it. Otherwise, lets finish the current construction that’s been ongoing for decades ad decades with no end in sight.
Because he mentioned military, and Fort Hood is Killeen, TX.
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