Another anti highway group/report

[Mergingtraffic]

Let's call this group/study for what they are...anti highway.
Their list of boondoggles only have highway projects listed.  Surely there must be some mass transit boondoggles out there.
This is CT's news item.  Good to see officials "push bacK" on this study instead of being PC.

I'm sure your state has a news item about their study too.


http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Report-I-84-expansion-among-nation-s-biggest-11083090.php

[pianocello]

I think it's funny how they use the lack of increasing traffic as a reason to call it a boondoggle, but they don't seem to realize that there's a certain point at which traffic can no longer increase due to extreme congestion. I've never been to Danbury, but I'd assume the traffic demand is far from stagnant.

[sparker]

Let's call this group/study for what they are...anti highway.
Their list of boondoggles only have highway projects listed.  Surely there must be some mass transit boondoggles out there.
This is CT's news item.  Good to see officials "push bacK" on this study instead of being PC.

I'm sure your state has a news item about their study too.


http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Report-I-84-expansion-among-nation-s-biggest-11083090.php

I think it's funny how they use the lack of increasing traffic as a reason to call it a boondoggle, but they don't seem to realize that there's a certain point at which traffic can no longer increase due to extreme congestion. I've never been to Danbury, but I'd assume the traffic demand is far from stagnant.

Let's see.....the sky is generally still blue, the pope is still Catholic, and bears...you know...and a PIRG comes out with yet another iteration of an anti-road-capacity-enlargement screed -- what else is new?!  Mind you, some PIRG's are actually useful, particularly in the areas of institutional fraud detection and publicizing, pointing out incidents of voter rights being diminished or truncated, and the like.  But it's not easy to determine the end game of the PIRGs who persist in this broad-based anti-car/road agenda.  At best they're simply environmental activists who feel they have identified a problem and have come up with a "starve the beast" solution; at worst they're engaging in a form of repetitive exercise best described as "throw the same shit on different walls and hope some of it sticks!"  Unfortunately for them, they're coming up against a formidable obstacle -- human nature (as self-serving as it may be at times!); a precious few willingly don "hair shirts" to achieve a goal usually defined by others -- at least in an environment nominally situated above subsistence.   Not that these critics don't have a point -- but there are other societal shortcomings that are more pressing than whether I-84 or any other arterial gets an extra lane.  If indeed their end game is to supplant extant sociopolitical modus operandi with a more communitarian ethos, I wish them luck -- given this country's roller-coaster political scene, they'll certainly need it!