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  easy?

  Easy -- cut commuting times, reduce driving, reduce congestion, green intercity travel and green freight shipping (so that rising oil prices don't feed through to prices for other goods, including food).

  I think you're idea of "easy" and mine differ slightly.

  The development mix should certainly skew more mass transit, but however that hashes out, I sincerely hope there's some decent contract oversight. Big Dig-level cost overruns are something nobody needs right now. My biggest problem with spending on roads is that much of it doesn't make any sense. I drove through this huge honking multilane freeway they're building through the middle of Knoxville. WTF is up with that thing? The level of traffic just didn't seem to merit all that asphault. I can easily imagine that sort of multilane hellscape getting planted in every major metropolis with more than 300k residents. On Bills for highways, no change for transit posted 10 months, 1 week ago 10 Responses