ICC update: National recognition
Baltimore City Paper’s Michael Byrne this week highlights the status of the ICC as one of America’s seven “highways to nowhere,” as recognized by Infrastructuralist. Byrne makes note of the project’s budgetary impact. From the article:
A key piece of evidence is a report released by the Coalition for Smarter Growth, which examined five alternatives to the ICC, ranging from completing the proposed Purple Line and adding bus service along the corridor to adding express-bus services and creating High Occupancy Toll lanes on highways. Three of those options were found to reduce traffic on existing arterial roads in the corridor and cost less money.
I have to wonder whether the studies took contractual obligations into account. Closing a project after a massive construction project starts (as some advocate for the ICC) is rarely cheap, assuming failsafes were correctly put into place.
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