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Originally Posted by Soundy
I understood the rest of his post just fine. You re-read his last sentence: it appears to be drawing a conclusion that all is said and done and has failed.
Or maybe my Engrish just isn't that good.  |
I went back and edited it, my final sentence wasn't clear.
I think the route will be successful; I define success as it saving an average of greater than five minutes per hour by offering a more direct path to destinations. Companies would therefore use the route whether tolled or un-tolled, because the difference would only be the degree of savings. That means the result of not tolling is giving away $3 billion dollars in free access, a sort of stimulus to the container truck driving industry. Giving away $3 billion dollars to truckers is a mistake, because the economy would benefit more significantly by investing it elsewhere; such as a project which cannot so easily re-coup funds, like transit expansions.
While I'm posting in this thread...
Whoever designed the 176th westbound exit is fucking special, short bus special. They could of built a roundabout, or stuck with the tried and true design. They didn't do that though. They designed it so a light stops traffic northbound, drivers turn left, and immediately merge into busy, truck heavy southbound traffic; how the fuck is that intelligent or even safe? At least the view while you sit at the light is nice, because that totally compensates for the terrible design that makes me fear for my life. All of 176th is equally terrible, Barnston is no longer accessible from 176th either.