dumbest article ever


I suggest the author travel at least 300 miles on 55 North, look at cornfields and the fucking river, and re-write

Written by someone who apparently doesn't know how to drive.

And ignorant of money spent of road construction creates jobs and gets spent back into communities several times.

The problem with letting the GOP decide how to spend money is how much is siphoned off into corrupt deals. Some of that happens on the left side of the aisle too, but if the GOP is in charge, you can count on a large portion going missing.

I have an idea for how the GOP can come up with the money, namely don't start any more fucking wars, and divert those wasted funds into infrastructure.

But there are times i wish i could load my vehicle onto a train and hang out in the dinner car until i reach my destination. Off load the vehicle, and make a short trip to my destination. I believe they do this sort of thing in Europe

vice versa.

http://www.amtrak.com/auto-train-your-car-your-stuff-and-you

Also in the NE interstates are asphalt, so there is that?

This guy is a RW hack for what that's worth.

Maybe I shouldn't have posted it.

I would like to see us talking more about infrastructure but maybe this isn't the right article to instigate the discussion I'd like to see us have.

My Dad was an Electrician and we moved about every three months.
I was two weeks old for the first move (Lubbock TX to LA).
The interstate highways were a blessing. They reduced travel time tremendously.
Yes they need to be updated but until we have trains like Europe we still need them.

Runs through Joliet and down to my town where it then runs for around another 50 miles as the east frontage road for I-55. Lots of markers and landmarks for it around where i live.

There is a restored gas station (Standard) in a town about 30 miles south of us that has the old glass cylinder pumps. (Of course, it's not in operation. Just a piece of highway nostalgia.)

It just isn't the same. The little roadside places were left out then. Haven't been that way in around 30 years so have no idea what's there now.

.... where we sell the Strategic Petroleum reserve to fund less than 1% of our highway maintenance needs. What is next, sell the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial?

Time to wake up folks.

The sheer amount of people and vehicles has turned the "Hair waving in the breeze" into trying to stay back 3 car lengths and hoping that another idiot will not squeeze between you and the car in front..

Having said that, I still love the damn things.

that and the truckers who signal and just TAKE the right-of-way and force you to slam on your brakes instead of them waiting until it is safe for them move over.

it is probably one of the worst things we could've done.

... I was expecting the automobile culture would be dead by now.

I've never liked automobiles, especially the gasoline or diesel sort. They are stinky noisy expensive things that kill and maim people.

Nevertheless, when I was younger I did more than my fair share of driving.

My wife and I were Los Angeles commuters when we met, but we've avoided that lifestyle, most especially once we had children, who are all now 21+ adults. When our kids were infants and toddlers we were able to manage our work schedules so one of us was always home. We never did daycare. I'd also take our babies to my wife's work so they could nurse.

One of our kids now commutes (in a Prius...), an adaption to California's impossible Bay Area housing costs, where wages seem high until you look at the rents.

I drive a mid-eighties $800 car with a salvage title. I also have the mechanical skills to keep it going, barring any major engine failure. I have less than zero interest in cars. If someone gave me a new car, no matter how wonderful, I'd give it away as fast as I could.

Personally I don't care if the Interstate Highway system rots.

In my Utopia the maximum speed limit for anything but emergency vehicles is 35 miles per hour, including airplanes. Passengers and freight are moved long distances by ambling electric trains, and vacations are long enough to enjoy the ride.

Everyone is in too much of a hurry, and for what? We're all racing along the highway to hell, faster, faster, faster...

What our economists call "productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.

that you cannot drive down the road without breaking your windshield.

In the past few months, I had to rent two cars. Both were returned with broken windshields.

My new car that I just bought also sports one.

It is maddening.

Our bridges are also very rusted out, there is an effort to replace many of them but just looking at them driving down the highway is unnerving.

It ain't that complicated.

Tax the rich.

That has to be the first step. There's hardly any money left to raid in the food stamp and public school budgets. Unprecedented hoarding of wealth going on.

In case anyone is still confused, TAX THE RICH.