While DarNel sees non cost benefits for building the highway wider, but doesnot for rail, the real issue may be that widening the highway will make it smaller in the short run, with corresponding road delays and increased environmental damage. In the long run, increased capacity will lead to increased dtraffic. If it were not so, you'd not be in the situation you are.
But what happens after liquid fuel becomes $5 or $6 a gallon? The rich will drive, of course. But the people who do the work in the County (who can't afford to live in the County now) will either demand higher wages or stop working as there are no alternatives.
When the voters passed Prop 1B, they expected that 2% of the money would go towards improving intercity rail. If the bond is not bait and switch, then we need to get going on improving public transportation.
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Posted on May 2 at 7:27 p.m.
While DarNel sees non cost benefits for building the highway wider, but doesnot for rail, the real issue may be that widening the highway will make it smaller in the short run, with corresponding road delays and increased environmental damage. In the long run, increased capacity will lead to increased dtraffic. If it were not so, you'd not be in the situation you are.
But what happens after liquid fuel becomes $5 or $6 a gallon? The rich will drive, of course. But the people who do the work in the County (who can't afford to live in the County now) will either demand higher wages or stop working as there are no alternatives.
When the voters passed Prop 1B, they expected that 2% of the money would go towards improving intercity rail. If the bond is not bait and switch, then we need to get going on improving public transportation.
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