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[intelati49]

If you had to pick three major projects for your DOT to complete, what would they be?

In my case my three would be...

1. Bella Vista Bypass ( Come on people )
2. Improve Bruce D Wilkons dr to interstate standards  
3. Rebuild the entire I-70 in Missouri (Pipe Dream)

[Quillz]

a) Reopen CA-39 between Crystal Lake and CA-2.
b) Finish making all of CA-99 between Wheeler Ridge and Sacramento a freeway.
c) Raise the speed limit of US-395.

[agentsteel53]

* 710 upgraded between Valley Blvd and Pasadena from an Evel Knievel ramp to an actual freeway.

* 101 made into a freeway across San Francisco.

* freeway built from I-5 to San Diego's Lindbergh Field airport.

[US71]

If you had to pick three major projects for your DOT to complete, what would they be?

In my case my three would be...

1. Bella Vista Bypass ( Come on people )

Well, they've started on it, at least. Though it will be more of a Hiwasse bypass for now

[NE2]

My three would be:
1. Move this to fictional highways.
2. Move this to fictional highways.
3. Move this to fictional highways.

[US71]

My three would be:
1. Move this to fictional highways.
2. Move this to fictional highways.
3. Move this to fictional highways.

I'm sorry...I didn't know you were a List Mod

But we are discussing legimiate projects, so I'm not sure "Fictional Highways" applies.

[NE2]

But we are discussing legimiate projects

A US 101 freeway through San Francisco is not a legitimate project.

[Ian]

1) I-95/PA Turnpike interchange
2) I-80/I-99 interchange
3) Finish whatever they are doing on I-476 in Conshohocken.

[hbelkins]

1.) East End Bridge connecting I-265 in KY and I-265 in IN.
2.) Extend Blue Grass Parkway to connect with I-64.
3.) Complete the London-Ashland corridor (KY 30-KY 11-KY 715-KY 7).

[ftballfan]

1. Build the whole US-31 Holland/Grand Haven bypass as originally planned.
2. Fix the I-96/I-196/M-37/M-44 interchange.
3. Close the gap in US-31 near Benton Harbor/St. Joseph.

[xonhulu]

1.  Build the Columbia River Crossing replacing I-5 Interstate Bridge
2.  Build Newberg-Dundee Bypass
3.  Widen I-5 to 6 lanes between Salem and Eugene

[ethanman62187]

My 3 are:
1.  Close the gap on I95.
2.  Close the gap on I74.
3.  Raise speed limit on freeways to 75 MPH.

[PAHighways]

1) I-95/PA Turnpike interchange
2) I-80/I-99 interchange
3) Finish whatever they are doing on I-476 in Conshohocken.

The work on 476 is the final phase of its improvement project.

I'd replace three with "Finish the Mon-Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway."

[newyorker478]

1. Tappan Zee Bridge replacement

2. Hudson River crossing from Cross County Parkway in Yonkers to Alpine N.J.

3. Extension of taconic parkway north from I-90/Mass Pike to either US 20, or further to either NY 7, or to merge with I-87/Northway or NY 22

[vtk]

Since this is not Fictional Highways, I can't be as grandiose as I'd like, but...

1. Columbus Crossroads project; to finish it all by 2015 would be nice, but the money's not there.
2. Nelsonville Bypass; also going too slow in my opinion.
3. Freeway upgrade for US 33, Columbus to Lancaster

[pianocello]

Even though I live in Iowa, my to-do list is mostly for IL DOT:

1. Speed up the process of making a new I-74 bridge (ok, this is split between ILDOT and IADOT)
2. Fix the Big X interchange to get rid of the mainline on loop ramps (this does NOT involve switching the 80 and 280 numbers)
3. Get rid of all urban cloverleaves (particularly the I-74 at John Deere Rd in Moline, and also the interchanges on I-55 between 355 and 294)

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Since this is not Fictional Highways, I can't be as grandiose as I'd like, but...

1. Columbus Crossroads project; to finish it all by 2015 would be nice, but the money's not there.
2. Nelsonville Bypass; also going too slow in my opinion.
3. Freeway upgrade for US 33, Columbus to Lancaster

Keep 1.
2. Finish the 6 laning of I-71 in Northern Delaware County & Morrow County.
3. Build an east-west bypass of Delaware.

[hbelkins]

My 3 are:
1.  Close the gap on I95.
2.  Close the gap on I74.
3.  Raise speed limit on freeways to 75 MPH.

Are you talking about in Virginia or in general, nationwide?

[agentsteel53]

A US 101 freeway through San Francisco is not a legitimate project.

I believe it is.  It has been under heavy consideration since the 1950s, just met with even heavier community opposition.

the one which I am least sure about is the San Diego airport freeway.  I know a lot of people want it, but I could not name a roadbuilding plan which contained it as a legitimate project.

[agentsteel53]

Are you talking about in Virginia or in general, nationwide?

speed limit 75 nationwide would be all right, except in certain places in the rural west where it would be stifling.  there are rural roads in Nevada, Utah, west Texas, etc where the road occupancy is so minimal (under 1000 vehicles/day, sometimes as low as 50 vehicles/day) that "no speed limit, but do not drive recklessly" - as was the law before 1973 in many places - is the most sensible approach.

[DeaconG]

1. Get the Wekiva Parkway done around Orlando and get a full beltway in place.
2. Finish six laning I-95 (in work around Titusville, starting work between Palm Bay and Fort Pierce, eventually between Titusville and Daytona Beach)
3. Get the westbound SR 528 bridge built across the Indian River (tenatively scheduled for 2013).

[newyorker478]

complete i-69!!!!

[Revive 755]

For Illinois (although the actual project requirement wipes out the ones I'd like to list):

1) Begin construction on the Illiana
2) Build the IL 29 expressway
3) Six lane I-55 through Springfield

For Missouri:

1) Build the Hannibal Bypass for US 61
2) Finish the cross state US 50 improvements
3) Upgrade US 61 to freeway standards from I-70 to the Pike County line

[Quillz]

Are you talking about in Virginia or in general, nationwide?

speed limit 75 nationwide would be all right, except in certain places in the rural west where it would be stifling.  there are rural roads in Nevada, Utah, west Texas, etc where the road occupancy is so minimal (under 1000 vehicles/day, sometimes as low as 50 vehicles/day) that "no speed limit, but do not drive recklessly" - as was the law before 1973 in many places - is the most sensible approach.

I definitely agree with this... There is no reason rural stretches of road can't have no speed limits. I think we should take a page out of the Autobahn system.

[oscar]

Are you talking about in Virginia or in general, nationwide?

speed limit 75 nationwide would be all right, except in certain places in the rural west where it would be stifling.  there are rural roads in Nevada, Utah, west Texas, etc where the road occupancy is so minimal (under 1000 vehicles/day, sometimes as low as 50 vehicles/day) that "no speed limit, but do not drive recklessly" - as was the law before 1973 in many places - is the most sensible approach.

I definitely agree with this... There is no reason rural stretches of road can't have no speed limits. I think we should take a page out of the Autobahn system.

But remember that Montana abandoned "reasonable and prudent" in the late 1990s or so, after its state supreme court found that under the law motorists didn't get enough guidance on what was the safe speed for a particular stretch of highway, so it let off the hook some joker going at triple-digit speeds on a two-lane highway.  The state switched to fixed speed limits rather than continue with a basically unenforceable "reasonable and prudent" limit. 

I'm skeptical of the court's reasoning, but it didn't help that Montana in R&P days didn't have many yellow-on-black curve or other advisory speed limit signs.  There were places on the Interstate system where a, say, 85mph curve advisory would've been useful, but in R&P days I never saw a curve advisory for anything over 65mph.

BTW, in Montana R&P applied only to cars during the day, with fixed (and rather low) speed limits at night and for trucks.