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Here's an anticle I read today on Yahoo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20021121/ts_usatoday/4641404
The report also had this to say about a particular road in Central Florida:
The report singles out a stretch of highway along Florida's west coast -- U.S. Highway 19 in Pasco County, north of St. Petersburg -- as the deadliest reported by any county in the nation in 2001.
A six-lane highway with a speed limit of 45 mph, ''it has few sidewalks or crosswalks and is lined by strip malls and big-box stores set far back from the street,'' the report says. ''While designed for access via automobile, people do walk on this street, and an average of 11 pedestrians die on this stretch of road each year.''
Sounds just like 1000 other no places in America doesn't it?
Highway departments downplay the findings, which should come as no surprise being that most are in bed with the rich contractors and fatcat politicians. I'm sure they are thinking about the horrors of their bloated levels of funding being reduced if dollars were to be siphoned-off to areas that would enhance alternative transportation.
After all, what's the life of a five year old girl impaled in the grille of a Lincoln Navigator in comparison to the billions of dollars that can be spent on pork-barrel project to "fix" roads that aren't broken or widen the 12 lane collector road to the mall.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20021121/ts_usatoday/4641404
The report also had this to say about a particular road in Central Florida:
The report singles out a stretch of highway along Florida's west coast -- U.S. Highway 19 in Pasco County, north of St. Petersburg -- as the deadliest reported by any county in the nation in 2001.
A six-lane highway with a speed limit of 45 mph, ''it has few sidewalks or crosswalks and is lined by strip malls and big-box stores set far back from the street,'' the report says. ''While designed for access via automobile, people do walk on this street, and an average of 11 pedestrians die on this stretch of road each year.''
Sounds just like 1000 other no places in America doesn't it?
Highway departments downplay the findings, which should come as no surprise being that most are in bed with the rich contractors and fatcat politicians. I'm sure they are thinking about the horrors of their bloated levels of funding being reduced if dollars were to be siphoned-off to areas that would enhance alternative transportation.
After all, what's the life of a five year old girl impaled in the grille of a Lincoln Navigator in comparison to the billions of dollars that can be spent on pork-barrel project to "fix" roads that aren't broken or widen the 12 lane collector road to the mall.