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Post by Mikey on Aug 30, 2006 15:38:58 GMT -4
If you didnt have an opportunity to read about the 2-year study regarding the solution to Bay Bridge traffic, here you go: www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2006/08_30-02/TOPVery bad news. Almost anything would have been better than ... nothing. We know that we can expect regular 12-hour back-ups in 20 years. We know that building anything will take at least 10 years, certainly longer. And we know that the problem will continue to grow. It seeme that a task force that works on the problem for two years can come up with something better than ... nothing. Next steps: Spend 2 years studying a rail or ferry solution. Not sure how that can get 2,000,000 from Balt/DC to the beaches every year, but maybe they are smarter than I am. It seems to me Kent Island is headed for a train-wreck.
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Post by Alex L on Aug 30, 2006 16:14:27 GMT -4
Too many "not in my backyard" types will keep another bridge from ever being built, not to mention environmentalists, etc., etc.
On another note, anyone notice how the Crapital newspaper used an AP reporter for a local story?!? They can't even write local news now?
/Used to work there
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Post by Mikey on Aug 30, 2006 17:18:08 GMT -4
Yeah, but that’s the purpose of a task force. To cut through the different interests and make the right decision for the state as a whole. But they loaded down the task force with politicians, thus ensuring failure.
And no, I didn’t notice the AP attribute. Good catch. I guess the staff writers were all over in Europe covering the midshipman that swam across the English Channel.
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Post by bchevy on Aug 31, 2006 6:25:31 GMT -4
"NOT IN MY BACKYARD?" YOU BETCHA!
IF you build a 3rd bridge here we'll have 9 or MORE lanes of route 50 instead of 6.
The bridge needs to be SOUTH of us, The study a couple years ago showed that the majority of the beach traffic comes from that direction. Traffic from the north comes down the shore, What more do you need to know except WHERE to put the new bridge?
Cheasapeake beach has a 4 lane highway that goes almost to the BEACH on the bay. that's called a clue.
We need to DIVERT traffic FROM the current bridges, not invite more with a new/bigger span (and you know it'll be bigger)
I really need to get me one of them studying jobs! work all that time, get paid, and say NOTHING.
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Post by Frank on Aug 31, 2006 8:09:30 GMT -4
You're right, what a garbage report for the money spent! A third bridge from the Plum Point area into Cambridge would relieve the conjestion; but talking about it won't make it happen. The span would be about five miles, or one-half mile longer than the current bridges. Bay Bridge users could then use 404 as an alternative to avoid Cambridge backups to the ocean. Everyone wins, two routes to the beach instead of one, and the Bay Bridge gets some much needed relief.
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Post by Mike on Aug 31, 2006 8:54:26 GMT -4
Pave Kent Island!
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2006 9:58:23 GMT -4
What is published and what is planned (i.e., going to happen) are not the same thing.
Ever hear of the ICC? Do you know what area they're studying? Do you realize they already own nearly ALL of the land for the original and still intended route?
Too convenient to create what's been done going down to the Anne Arundel County beaches and then NOT consider building better access to Maryland's cash cow. Foolish to believe it's not a plan in the works.
Studies are FOR politicians currently in office, but SHA, as do other gummint agencies, have a corporate mentality when it comes to initiatives like this - the bureaucrats working there will outlive the politicians currently living in the spotlight. They'll keep working towards their own goals and provide a 2 year study to the pols just to shut them up.
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Post by Frank on Aug 31, 2006 10:44:36 GMT -4
What is the original and intended route?
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2006 10:57:55 GMT -4
For the ICC? The one they determined 40-some years ago.
For the bridge? Not sure, but I bet in some overly expensive, under-productive gummint employee's office in an SHA building is a plan showing the bridge being connected across the bay from the Chesapeake Beach area east... probably with the western approaches matching exactly the alignment of the unexplainably nice highway approaching that area.
I'm not suggesting personal knowledge of the bridge project, but I am aware of the ICC project,and I know enough of SHA and bureaucracy to know this report is nothing but smoke for some pol's ass..
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Post by Mike on Aug 31, 2006 15:25:54 GMT -4
but seriously -- A Bridge from Calvert County to Dorchester County would do wonders -- albeit a little long, but it would work and we could actualy venture across that 4.5 mile strectch of concrete and steel to go to a chain resturant on a Friday summer night!
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Post by ljp on Sept 1, 2006 21:08:33 GMT -4
greensboro mike you are too funny, way to link in the other pages!! I did hear however that Trump was looking at property in Cambridge...maybe he knows something we don't?
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Post by Mike on Sept 1, 2006 23:20:03 GMT -4
thank ljp, you are a hot one too
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