- Justice is term limited, so his views on the subject get less relevant each day, but if you look at a map, a complete KC/Tolsia takes something like 15 miles off the existing I-77/I-64, while a completed CFE US 121 might take 25 off the existing I-77/ Corridor Q US 460, which still is incomplete in Virginia. Both pass through areas of tiny population. I certainly see no desire in Virginia to build the rest of Q, let alone this project.
- As I understand it, the turnpike bonds deal is a sort of loophole. They use general money to work on the turnpike and this create the legal fiction that the turnpike “owes” the state money, and thus can issue bonds to “pay back” that debt, thus avoiding the legal requirement that the tolls be taken off a road that was upgraded with 90% federal money and which was paid off in 1985.
- The turnpike toll booths, southbound, are overwhelmed on the Sunday after Thanksgiving (which says a lot about a lot) but other than that, seem adequate. You might wait 90 seconds.