Let me get this right. Our Department of Transportation started a $1.2 million study in October 2005 and aims to wrap it up in the spring of 2007. According to the article in Wednesday’s Herald, a grassroots group is urging lawmakers to chip in $700,000 to finish the study on a 45-mile section of U.S. 2 and when that is completed they can start seeking funding for actual improvements. If the study was started in October, was it started without funding? Who determined that it would cost $1.2 million in the first place? Is the $700,000 needed in addition to the $1.2 million? U.S. 2 is a federal highway. We are already pay a gas tax to the federal government to maintain U.S. roads.
Why can’t we tap into that bucket for improvements to U.S. 2?
It seems like a lot of money to find out that a four-lane highway with left turn lanes and traffic lights at dangerous intersections is needed. It must be noted that whatever improvements are made to the highway, there will still be bad drivers who drink, get high and speed. This is the real problem.
Ronald P. Foster
Everett
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