"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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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.

Exactly. Immokalee Road was widened from 1 lane to 2. They just
completed it in 2002. Just a couple of months ago, they started the
process of widening it to 3 lanes.

If anyone cared to do so, they should find an ambitious reporter to look
DEEPLY into that mistake. There's a good chance it was NOT a mistake.

It's already been done. A County Commissioner, City Planning Manager, and
local developer are in jail over it.

Let me guess: It would've obviously been cheaper to go from 1 to 3 lanes,
but the contractor felt otherwise, and "convinced" the other 2 of his
views.