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A TWO LANE Bella Vista bypass? What is AHTD smoking? I'm guessing it's crack.
Quote from: bugo on August 04, 2010, 07:12:48 PMA TWO LANE Bella Vista bypass? What is AHTD smoking? I'm guessing it's crack.Watch them try to toll the thing: no one will drive it.
Quote from: US71 on August 04, 2010, 09:06:42 PMQuote from: bugo on August 04, 2010, 07:12:48 PMA TWO LANE Bella Vista bypass? What is AHTD smoking? I'm guessing it's crack.Watch them try to toll the thing: no one will drive it.I might, depending upon how high the toll is and how many annoying, uncoordinated, possibly photo enforced stoplights there are in Bella Vista. I'd be happy to pay 75 cents to $1.50 for a super-two (the freeway type, not the other type many states seem to define) bypass of Hannibal, MO.EDIT: In case anyone's wondering, I have never been through Bella Vista.
Is Arkansas purposely planning to build a road to kill people?
Plus it if I remember right you can't end a Two Digit Interstate at a Three Digit Interstate
Hopefully the feds don't pull some nitpicky crap about a discontinuous I-49 for Missouri.Assuming the interchange with current US 71 gets upgraded, I wonder what the prospects are for a 3di for that MO 249/MO 171 loop that Joplin has? Looks like a nice little I-249 to me.
If it does follow MO 249 then there will have to be major rework at the Interchange with US-71 which has a actual light.
Plus I am so strong on this as I have seen many lives lost on the Bruce Watkins and know it will only get worse with more traffic from a I-49 upgrade coming online.
Kansas City's WDAF has a report showing mixed reaction to the plan.http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-story-us71-i49-change-080510,0,237844.story
A court order is effect but a certain Congressman who helped broker the deal could really help avoid neighborhood hassles associated with a upgrade. The upgrade itself could physically easily be done in a two year time span as their would be a Interchange at Gregory and a double Interchange at the two the further north lights. Plenty of room in the medians to do the upgrades and if a upgrade occured I would recommend 3 laning from Bannister Road up to the northern lights as both north and south of the area 6 lanes or more. A bottleneck would occur if a upgrade happened. Also to smooth over ruffles the upgraded Intersections could be designed with plenty of asthetic upgrades aka all of the other Interchanges on the Bruce Watkins. If 49 went thru to 44 and then switched over I would also upgrade I-44 to six lanes between the two sections of I-49.
Agree with the elevated road way at Brush Creek and MODOT could do a joint intersection like they did with the BLVD's on both side of Brush Creek. This could save money on the two northern lights and do less damage to the neighborhood. A few very bad high speed wrecks have happened at those Cass County intersections.
Quote from: ShawnP on August 06, 2010, 10:53:50 AMAgree with the elevated road way at Brush Creek and MODOT could do a joint intersection like they did with the BLVD's on both side of Brush Creek. This could save money on the two northern lights and do less damage to the neighborhood. A few very bad high speed wrecks have happened at those Cass County intersections. Here are some considerations (from another list): some theorize the median would be better used for high speed rail. ALSO, any bridges built would have to conform to a certain decorative standard and some of the "exits" there are would have to be modified (67th St, 50th St). CAN it be done? Probably. WILL it be done? No time soon. Where will the additional money come from?