Sanders

[Samthehumble]

Saw that he was pushing for big spending on road construction.  Doesn't he believe people should be using less carbon producing fossil fuels?     Shouldn't you deemphasising roads if thats the case.

[Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^)]

Exactly! You don't need clover-leaf overpasses when then government mandates that we are all to use ox carts to haul our mandated GMO-free , organic grain to the collective depot.

"Spa-cee-ba"(thank you), comrade, for pointing that out.

[hardnox]

There are plenty of core roads and bridges that need to be repaired. But yes, I wouldn't build a single new mile.

If someone needs a new road to their development let them pay for it, which is generally how it should always have been anyway. The developement model that taxes existing communities in order pay the cost of new sprawl which won't pay for itself for decades, if ever, is crazy.

Of course lotsa people who benefit from that system including the overnight millionaires who 1031 their land on a 5 or 10 for 1 basis.

In an ideal world that would include Toyota if they want to build a plant. In the real world, of course it doesn't work that way. If one community offers to pave it in silver they're just setting the bar for the folks who will pave it in gold.

[OKdon]

The population is growing. The roads and bridges are in need of repair or replacement. Doing so today will cost less than tomorrow when there are 350 million americans using the streets and roads. Evidently building a new four lane to the new walmart is sexier than fixing the bridge in a metro area.

Plus building new streets roads water lines and sewers to new developments  and then giving the new home buyers tax abatement while people that have lived in these cities and paid taxes for 50 years are dodging pock marked roads that look like they have been under an artillary barrage.

BTW low fuel prices will stimulate more fuel usage as people can afford to drive more. Thank goodness you got us senile old pharts that just want to stay home.

[Samthehumble]

I would think, if a person believed the impending calamity of agw, they'd be arguing that the interstate system needs to be abandoned and the money spent on rail.

[r3020]

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@hardnox wrote:

There are plenty of core roads and bridges that need to be repaired. But yes, I wouldn't build a single new mile.

If someone needs a new road to their development let them pay for it, which is generally how it should always have been anyway. The developement model that taxes existing communities in order pay the cost of new sprawl which won't pay for itself for decades, if ever, is crazy.

Of course lotsa people who benefit from that system including the overnight millionaires who 1031 their land on a 5 or 10 for 1 basis.

In an ideal world that would include Toyota if they want to build a plant. In the real world, of course it doesn't work that way. If one community offers to pave it in silver they're just setting the bar for the folks who will pave it in gold.

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Why dump the money into roads and bridges when all of the cheap oil is gone. How good of a bridge do you need for a bicycle?