The only thing wrong with the Pennsylvania project is that it doesn't start sooner and doesn't expand farther.
The Interstate in question was built 60 years ago prior to the Interstate highway standards. The population of the area has grown 50% but the road has stayed the same.
Public Interest Research Group = Ralph Nader
Enough said.
nonpartisan (rimshot) Frontier Group think tank
The Left call themselves “progressives” because in their deluded minds, more government is “progress”. But in fact, the Left hates real progress and they hate individual freedom because individual freedom is the antithesis of government control and these neurotic, psycho cases are drooling to control others.
I believe that the induced demand happens.
I recall decades ago, when they were planning the “Washington Circumferential Highway”, which later was named the “Beltway”, planners expected that this circular road would be a bypass around Washington for through traffic, for the long haul truckers and tourists more than local traffic.
Eventually, suburban sprawl around Washington occurred in areas which were adjacent to Beltway interchanges, and traffic patterns changed because of the existence of the Beltway. Traffic increased precisely because the Beltway was there.
Very few people traveled from Bethesda to Tyson’s Corner in the 1950s. Today that is a routine trip on the Beltway.
The same thing happened in LA and Orange County, California. When Interstate 5 was built through Orange County, it brought large parcels of undeveloped land within easier commuting distance of LA. Land values skyrocketed, and orange groves became suburban housing tracts and shopping malls.
I’m sure many of you can think of other examples of this induced demand where you live.
Bicycles. That’s the answer. Millions and millions of bicycles.
The US should have more short sea shipping.
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The U.S. Interstate system is the greatest mass transit system known to man.