I-69 Super highway or Transportation Corridor?
10 March 2007 03:18 PM | Indiana, NW Indiana and Porter
County
I'm hearing a lot about Interstate 69 which Governor
Daniels wants to build between Indianapolis and
Evansville, Indiana. I hear that they want to
make it part of the NAFTA highway plan.
So with global warming and dependancy on imported oil from unstable parts of the globe why are we only building highways for NAFTA trade? Seems very uneconomical to me.
Seems to me we should be building a land transportation corridor. This would mean condemning a right of way large enough for 1. a super highway, 2. a fast passenger (Interurban plus high speed Amtrak) rail line between Evansville and Indianapolis, and 3. a dedicated fast rail freight line. I guess we couldn't build it all at once but we could certainly condemn the right of way and design the highway to incorporate rail lines running either alongside or up the middle.
This should be done with any new long distance interstate highways. In fact a modified version should be done for shorter super highways around urban areas, plan to add a commuter rail line to the right of way.
The fact remains that driving trucks from Mexico to Canada and back is a huge waste of fuel. All that freight should run in containers on trains. But if you really have to build a superhighway you should plan for the future.
Source: No Illiana Toll Road Discussion Group
So with global warming and dependancy on imported oil from unstable parts of the globe why are we only building highways for NAFTA trade? Seems very uneconomical to me.
Seems to me we should be building a land transportation corridor. This would mean condemning a right of way large enough for 1. a super highway, 2. a fast passenger (Interurban plus high speed Amtrak) rail line between Evansville and Indianapolis, and 3. a dedicated fast rail freight line. I guess we couldn't build it all at once but we could certainly condemn the right of way and design the highway to incorporate rail lines running either alongside or up the middle.
This should be done with any new long distance interstate highways. In fact a modified version should be done for shorter super highways around urban areas, plan to add a commuter rail line to the right of way.
The fact remains that driving trucks from Mexico to Canada and back is a huge waste of fuel. All that freight should run in containers on trains. But if you really have to build a superhighway you should plan for the future.
Source: No Illiana Toll Road Discussion Group
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