Your tax dollars at work

Ever wonder where all that money from that $2.3 billion transportation package passed by the state Legislature is going? Have you driven past Rose Tree Park in Upper Providence lately?

I suggest you do it - preferably in the early-morning hours when I roll through. You can really see how the project to remake this longtime traffic bottleneck is taking shape, widening the intersection to allow better access and turn lanes at the intersection with Rose Tree Road.

It's a $5 million project.

On our editorial page today, we note that while no one wants to pay more for gas and fees, the result is worth it. In this case, you really do get what you pay for.

President Obama will get in the act today. He will pay a visit to the closed I-495 bridge in Wilmington as he makes a push for a huge infusion of new federal transportation funding to attack the nation's crumbling infrastructure.

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davee said…
President Obama visits the I-495 bridge today to tout the need for infrastructure improvements. Two problems. First, the I-495 situation is not in any way related to infrastructure deficiencies. It has been established that the bridge structure problems are related to a huge dump of soil adjacent to the structure. Second, instead of just going to the bridge site and leaving, the President needed to go north on Rt 202 to have a hamburger (a/k/a photo-op multiplied) at the Charcoal Pit. Can you picture the traffic disruption on Rt 202 and in the entire surrounds caused by His Magnificence needing a burger and a photo op? How do you spell "Selfish"?
July 17, 2014 at 9:39 PM
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