re: Firm proposes inner loop for BTR

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Yep. They study everything and then decide against it. Because someone will complain

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Then someone else comes back 4-5 years later and wants to do another multi-million dollar study. Of course they'll say that NONE of the info gained from the study just a few years prior will be of any relevance to the new study. The new firm will have to reinvent the wheel at a cost of several million dollars. Rinse and repeat every 5 years of so.

No one can blow through other people's money better than the government

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So they want to make airline a toll road?

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You can't put a toll on an existing highway without adding capacity--lanes.

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the loop is to just go to airline highway from the old bridge?

seems like that would just add to airline highway being a clusterfrick

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They are proposing to make it like a freeway, with no signals. They are citing the fact that it has numerous frontage roads to facilitate access to businesses, which is mostly correct. But there would be some additional ones needed. You'd have the equivalent of off-ramps connecting to the frontage roads.

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You can't put a toll on an existing highway without adding capacity--lanes.

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I haven't seen any details, but without adding capacity to Airline, this plan wouldn't work anyway.

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I mean, frick. Stop "studying" everything.

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Federal Highway says high.

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Move the bottleneck to the old bridge. That will work

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maybe they can do it before the painters are finished. that would really help things out.

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Federal Highway says high.

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lol

If you "upgrade" Airline to a "freeway, with no signals, how do you get traffic to the opposite side frontage roads, without elevated crossovers?

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My vote is three lanes each direction with frontage roads.

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REJECTED.

4 lanes in each direction, with one of them being a through-lane for trucks only, and frontage roads.

Will the OT be able to handle this?