"Don White" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

Hmmm. The Highway bill appropriated the necessary funding to widen I-75
in Southwest Florida from 2 lanes to 3 lanes. Since most of the working
folks in Naples, Bonita Springs, Estero, and Fort Myers have to sit in
1-2 hours of traffic on that road every morning, I'd say that the money
is hardly "wasteful pork spending".

Sounds like your traffic authorities are as backward as ours. We had a
busy secondary highway into the city widened to 3 lanes from two a couple
of years ago. They should have made it 4 lanes while they were at it.
Seems a number of commercial businesses along the stretch didn't want the
four as it would infringe on their smaller parking lots. A lot of those
went belly-up anyway and the three lane road is already overcrowded at
rush hour.

Wait till they figure out what's been determined elsewhe Sometimes,
widening highways just leads the sprawl someplace else. Once that happens,
you can never build a big enough highway. It becomes impossible to stay a
step ahead of the ever-increasing traffic.

Interesting links he
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/tra...tion/index.asp

(This link is intended for Don)