Young interested in roads

Don Young (Repub Alaska) the new chairman of the House Transp Committee is interested in road design, reports BETTER ROADS mag. Young told them he wants to look at innovatory configurations such as doubledecking roads where it is too difficult to expand laterally. ‘Tiered highways’ could have short-haul traffic on the lower level and longhaul on the upper level through congested areas. Young also favors designated truck-only lanes in places to allow the different sized vehicles to move better. He does not favor much change in the financing of roads, it seems. He calls TEA-21 a “very good basic bill” and he expects the next one to be some slight revision and expansion of what is in place. However Young does want to attack congestion problems more aggressively and to find ways to accelerate construction of new roads. It should be possible, he says, to get highways go from conception to finalization in 3 years instead of 12 years. He says the 12-year problem is caused in large part by the inability of government agencies to work together.

He wouldn’t be alluding to our good friends at the USEPA? Unfair, totally unfair. They’ll work together with absolutely, anyone so long as they don’t want to build a road.