Road design, transportation and walkability

[ijmorlan]

Great to see this road expansion finally getting done.  Has been discussed for sometime now and is sorely needed.  I would say for the usage it gets and the amount of people who will benefit, it's a bargain at $8.7 million.

And what if you factor in the environmental costs of the road and the sprawl that it will generate?  It won’t improve traffic, it will simply induce more traffic. Still a bargain?  What else could we have spent that 8 million on?

Bus lanes on the same stretch of road!

Seriously, very few roads in this region need 4 general traffic lanes. Turn lanes, OK. Past that, improve transit.