Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[CaptainHenreh]

my issues are with the initial road planning. where did the money from that funding stream go? did they (those in richmond) not plan for expansion? did they not plan for long term care? This can be said for every stretch of road we have in the state. when they make their $2.2 billion (and we know its going to cost more)... where will they put this money next? History shows us it wont be back into improving I-81.

When I-81 was constructed (finished in 1987), the planners probably could not have for seen the Just In Time inventory management schemes that computers would permit to exist, and interest rates would drive. Combine the removed need for overstocked inventory and warehouses with standardized and deregulated trucking and BAM: 73% of all freight shipped in the US is done by truck.

Wear and tear on roads increases non-linearly with the number of axles, and tractor trailers are ponderous and dangerous to operate, and although they are statistically less likely to have an accident on a per-unit basis, the consequence of a tractor trailer incident is a much larger impact (no pun intended) than a passenger car.

All of this is a perfect storm of bullshit for something the government already hates to spend money on: Infrastructure.

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So was Trump able to change anyone's mind last night? That was a doozy of an address. He stayed on his (insane) script which made him seem like a robot. I'm sure he wanted so badly to declare a state of emergency, but his staff must have talked him out of it. The 2 minutes of describing various murders throughout the US was outright bizarre.

No. "Build the wall!" is dumb. I do think we need a comprehensive immigration reform package, and I can't tell if TROTUS is just being unhinged or is acting like a Whip to try to get something done.

Either way, it's fucking stupid. But then, isn't everything these days.