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Originally Posted by juliusb What I said was ... the CCBC used route 4 as an excuse and doesn't have the experience necessary to handle the challege of solving this issue properly. No, I am not an expert when it comes to something like this ... but I am educated enough to know where to find the expertise I need. You know as well as I do, computer programs are generated every day to find solutions (more then one) to far more complex problems then Route 4. I also will add ... at a reasonable cost for the State and county. What's the difference between the New Lusby Strip Shopping Center/new Dunkirk shopping Center and one Super Wal-Mart Store when it comes to traffic? Common Sense tells you ... not much, if any. Especially when it removes all the traffic that is going out of county to shop for like items at the present time. |
There's nothing more dangerous than invoking "common sense" when you're not applying any. There is a HUGE difference between a WalMart Supercenter and a strip mall. If you lived near one, as I do, then you would know that common sense dictates that many, MANY, people are drawn to a WalMart Supercenter due to the convenience of one-stop shopping. Strip malls are comprised of more disparate and unique stores that don't generate a great deal of customer flow at any given time. How many people are going to the Verizon store, 7-11, gift shop, laundry mat, or other typical strip mall merchant at any given time? Now compare that to the number of people who find a need to go to the Supercenter at any given time? There's a HUGE difference in the two flows... that's the common sense.
As for computer programs, yes there are plenty of ways to calculate estimated traffic patterns and flows, but that information is pretty worthless if you don't have the money to do anything about it. As I said, the CCCs could apply for state highway funds, and there would be a few years of approvals, another year or two of studies and planning, more approvals, another year waiting to get on budget, and then maybe, provided the decision to widen RT 4 was made and funded, about 5-10 years of even worse congestion to get the job done. Do you really think that the voters would be sitting in more traffic jams thinking "you know... saving .50 on a box of cereal, and buying it in the county, is worth every bit of this misery." I doubt it.