The State DOT made the right decision in seeking to use available dollars for needed improvements to the existing travel corridor along Route 11.
I-98 is an evaporating pipe dream. Witness the discord in Massena over the advocacy of the highway to the exclusion of more pressing economic development needs. There is also the rejection by the Regional Council to make a rooftop highway a priority.
It's easy to advocate for I-98 without having any inkling of its real need or how to pay for it. Then there are the environmental concerns.
This is not a project we can afford or one we should be dangling out there as having any real prospect of happening.
The Journal Owens asks feds for I-98 answers
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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I 98 is not worth it if we spend our own money but you should just look at it like Fort Drum. If it is free money then it would help us all.
You don't have to know what you are going to do with an investment when you buy it. It is a safe bet that the rooftop would bring significant commerce to and through our area. It just wouldn't pay for itself. You know...like the Seaway.
It's the Same Old platitudes from the Same Old Lib'ruls--spend taxpayers' money to "create jobs," without regard to the net negative effects. What's wrong with spending the funds on Rte 11? Won't that create the same jobs?
Spend the money on repairs, not on a fancy new interstate that will bypass so many small towns. Fix some bridges or something. How will a limited-access highway open up the North Country more than it already is? Why is the NC even the best place to spend that money?
Congressman Owens is doing his job. This whole money thing happened before he was elected. I am glad he is asking the questions.
If Owens is doing anything at all its because Nancie told him to come up for air.
They could always use the money to put some more unneeded traffic lights in Brownville.
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