Re: highways to tomorrow

["JS M" <jbiggs50@hotmail.com>]

>My interruption of the statement is this:
>
>Why can't we Idahoans build a very good TWO-LANE highway,
>as the Canadians do?  Why must Idahoans think in terms
>of FOUR LANES as the solution???

Well, that's a good observation.  Ya know, a good two lane road with wider 
lanes and shoulders would probably solve 75% of the traffic accident 
problems.  Bypassing Moscow might make the place more peaceful, too, but 
what about highway commercial sprouting up outside town?  A bypass would cry 
out for a big a__ Husky truckstop, and there goes the neighborhood.
I saw a comment here about building light rail.  I really, really don't 
think that's a good idea.  It's enormously expensive, it doesn't work in 
rural communities, and building one is just like building a road.  I did a 
paper in college on the costs of light rail, and like bus routes, there is 
no way it pays for itself; you have to accept that it will always be 
subsidized (just like wheat farming).  Why not fix what we have?
jm


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