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Originally Posted by austin356
Ok regarding the interstate links particularly Atl/Hsv/Mph link:
There is a easy solution to this, it is the natural market based solution..... And is essentially free to the state.
If the state were to allow private infrastructure investors (very big business in practically every nation except US, even Europe) to come in and build their own roads and collect tolls everyone would be better off. Because:
-the can built it cheaper
-they can maintain it better and cheaper
-roads can be built on demand or in anticipation of demand instead of in response to demand which is essentially the problem in all southern states
-Aldot will have resources to concentrate on its existing road system
-its entirely use based
-in many cases different road operators can compete to provide the best road at the best price (for example is it a better use of money to travel on the free state owned roads to from Memphis to Atl, or is the better road worth the fee?) Meaning individual choices in the market, when there are viable alternative choices, can create competition and improve the experience for everyone.
I firmly believe if Alabama set up a private infrastructure development corporation (separate or division of aldot), which uses the states power to buy land for public use, in order to help facilitate investment. We could have all these projects and more completed within a decade:
-Mobile River bridge and bayway expansion
-Mobile outer loop and/or elevated airport expressway
-Montgomery loop
-Jeff Co 280 elevated expressway
-Jeff Co northern beltway
-myriad of need HSV metro projects
-Atl/Memphis via hsv link
-85 to meridian extension
I am 100% serious when I say we could have everyone of these projects completed within 10 years, if private investors were brought in. The world and nation is sooo full of liquidity that is just trying desperately to find a stable home in assets like roads, transit (when viable or subsidized), airports, roads, and everything else of the nature.
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good ideas, but first I would like to know what exactly is causing such delays and now huge backlog with ALDOT. They blame funding and there may be some of that but Congress has funded every project that was requested. I mention back to a post where the ALDOT director asked
Mayor Spencer what projects she thought were high priority and that they should focus on. Pure stupidity and waste of time. He doesn't know that already? It has been reported that the director can decide which projects can be delayed or moved up depending on what he wants. That may be the problem. The Mayor should give the Governor a tour of ineptness on HSV's
roads while he is here.
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