NOYB wrote:

Hmmm. The Highway bill appropriated the necessary funding to widen I-75 in
Southwest Florida from 2 lanes to 3 lanes. Since most of the working folks
in Naples, Bonita Springs, Estero, and Fort Myers have to sit in 1-2 hours
of traffic on that road every morning, I'd say that the money is hardly
"wasteful pork spending".


Sounds like your traffic authorities are as backward as ours. We had a
busy secondary highway into the city widened to 3 lanes from two a
couple of years ago. They should have made it 4 lanes while they were
at it. Seems a number of commercial businesses along the stretch didn't
want the four as it would infringe on their smaller parking lots. A lot
of those went belly-up anyway and the three lane road is already
overcrowded at rush hour.