JFX repairs a scare tactic by o'malley?

[Bloomin Onion]

I wonder if these so called emergency repass on 83 are a scare tactic by o'malley for legislators and citizens to support his gas tax increase to show how repairs are needed and they need more funds though they have taken money away from transportation to help illegal aliens and other liberal pet projects like Medicaid and food stamps.

If they raise the gas tax they will divert mist of it to mass transit which we dint need and which is unfair to rural taxpayers. And they will raid the fund againto help illegal aliens and government entitlement programs.

They feel to be open about what repairs are really needed and what they are asking taxpayers to pay for.

[BS21213]

me thinks BO is paranoid!

[Marshan Man]

No...

[Baltimatt]

I-83 in the city is a city road, not a state highway.

[Mitchum]

BO is on to it. It's all part of the UN's secret plan to take over the World. They call it the "Agenda 21" plan. Fortunately, for the rest of the USA the Carroll County Commissioners and their fellow Patriot Jim Simpson with the help of phony British Lord uncovered the plot and held a secret meeting in Baltimore County to organize resistance to the upcoming tyranny.

[bmore_ken]

me thinks BO is paranoid!

BO is on to it. It's all part of the UN's secret plan to take over the World. They call it the "Agenda 21" plan. Fortunately, for the rest of the USA the Carroll County Commissioners and their fellow Patriot Jim Simpson with the help of phony British Lord uncovered the plot and held a secret meeting in Baltimore County to organize resistance to the upcoming tyranny.

Too funny. True, but too funny

[Eastside Terp]

I-83 in the city is a city road, not a state highway.

you have a link for that Matt ......

it's an interstate, does it become a city road at the city border? .........

back to the original premise, no that's a pretty far fetched idea even for the boy blunder ....

[Baltimatt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_83

Inside Baltimore, the road is maintained not by the Maryland State Highway Administration, which controls most freeways in the state, but by the city's Department of Transportation.

[Eastside Terp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_83

thanks.....

weird, especially since they have been turning things over to the state for years to save $$$$

[Baltimatt]

SHA is headquartered in Baltimore City but doesn't maintain any of the roads here. If you're driving in on one the the state highways, you may very well see an "End State Maintenance" sign at the city line.

[Mitchum]

Once it crosses into the City it becomes an Expressway. I-83 is supposed to merge with 695 and eventually head South and terminate in Charlotte, NC.

[Eastside Terp]

so the city needs to keep redundant resources that the state already has to deal with these issues .......

big difference in maintaining local roads and elevated, concrete highways .......

sounds like another opportunity to eliminate duplication and save $$$ ......

[Mitchum]

Elevated highways have/are going the way of the Dodo. San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, Providence, Chicago, Buffalo have all demolished theirs.

[Eastside Terp]

Elevated highways have/are going the way of the Dodo. San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, Providence, Chicago, Buffalo have all demolished theirs.

the world series earthquake helped Oakland with that decision ......

I saw an article in the Sun with a proposal to do that to 83 recently .....

[Mitchum]

Look what a difference it made. That started the impetus to demolish the others. Normally when you have a on grade highway you only have one side exposed to the elements,salt ice, thawing etc. With an elevated highway you have four.

[MooGoo]

I think if anyone did a ride along with the inspectors and stood underneath the many and various bridges that we all drive on everyday and saw the crumbling conditions of the concrete and the exposed, rusted rebar holding it all together, they would be shocked. The salt, snow, rain and freezing temperatures that effect Maryland during the winter months take a huge toll on our roads and bridges.

[Bloomin Onion]

I wonder if these so called emergency repass on 83 are a scare tactic by o'malley for legislators and citizens to support his gas tax increase to show how repairs are needed and they need more funds though they have taken money away from transportation to help illegal aliens and other liberal pet projects like Medicaid and food stamps.

If they raise the gas tax they will divert mist of it to mass transit which we dint need and which is unfair to rural taxpayers. And they will raid the fund againto help illegal aliens and government entitlement programs.

They feel to be open about what repairs are really needed and what they are asking taxpayers to pay for.

How come they do not go into details about what work needs to be done no pictures.

Alll of a sudden they are also doing all this work on the tunnels the transportation authority runs. 83 is run by the city within city limits and even there the city is very much a democrat monopoly. However many drivers on 83 are suburban residents.

[Bloomin Onion]

Elevated highways have/are going the way of the Dodo. San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, Providence, Chicago, Buffalo have all demolished theirs.

Don't really care about these liberal or other post industrial cities trying to yuppiefy. I'd rather we have the freeway infrastructure I've seen in Dallas, Fort worth, Miami, Kansas city and Atlanta.

[Bloomin Onion]

the world series earthquake helped Oakland with that decision ......

I saw an article in the Sun with a proposal to do that to 83 recently .....

If they can change it to a ground level freeway with no new extra taxes (that will affect rural marylanders if it's statewide) I'll be on with it. But I'm sure omalleys dream would be to tear it up and build mass transit in place of it.

[Baltimatt]

Bloomin' Onion

You acknowledged I-83 is a city highway, yet you keep bringing O'Malley into this.

Also, a lot of suburbanites use mass transit. Even people from Carroll County ride the Metro.