On This Day | Different Era, Same Traffic Projects

Why We Chose It

We are once gain on the verge of a large and expensive highway 83 expansion, this time much further South than contemplated in 1952. It’s long past time that we ask what are the ripple on impacts of these decisions that make it easier and easier to speed through town… what if, one of those impacts is more and more outward expansion? What if we’re making it too easy to move further out? What if we’re no longer willing to pay to maintain all that outward expansion? Does that mean we should stop subsidizing convenience at the edge of town?

Also, we didn’t end up filling in the 6th street underpass; that was just a collective dream we all had — placing the burden of the crossing on the railroad. 🙂 And fortunately after years of flooding during only modest storms, an adequate pump station is now in place to keep the water from filling it up.