> The city of Dallas has just completed construction on Hwy 75 (a.k.a Central Expressway) which runs from the Northern suburbs to downtown Dallas, probably a good 20 or 25 miles. The construction began in '85 or '86 and was originally scheduled for completion in 1995. Then it was 1996, then 1998, etc...
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> After 13 years of construction, they have finally finished it. What was once a four lane highway is now an eight lane (or ten lane in some places) highway. The city even came in six million dollars under budget.
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> So how does the city of Dallas decide to celebrate the expansion of Central expressway and the fact that years of lane-closings and nightmare traffic might soon be gone?
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> That's right! They're going to shut it down for a parade!
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> Let me say that again: They are celebrating an end to one of the worst traffic zones in the state by shutting it down! For those of that have never been to Dallas, you can't understand the traffic jam this will create. Central Expressway feeds into a lot of other major highways and is the primary route to get from Dallas to the Northern suburbs.
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> The only bright spot to this is that I'll be out of town this weekend, so I won't have to battle the traffic.
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> Kel"when I'm King, things will be different"ly


I totally agree. Worse things have happenned. Think about it this way: What if we as a country put money into infrasturcture that included public transportation that people actually could use practically? Then we wouldn't have all of these mammoth gargantuan traffic problems that we need to alleviate by taking more land and more money to make bigger (and noisier)freeways.

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