By the way, that is not a reputable source for this conversation.

What is your solution? How are you going to achieve funding to reconstruct the roads?

What is your solution to the problem now? How do you plan on funding reconstructing those highways better?

You can share this with the planners and DOT staff.

https://www.yourlawyer.com/library/highway-system-costs-per-state/

Share with them that they're consistently in the top five (if not top 3) per mile road spending and the roads are shit. Come up with a good reason for that and I'll be more supportive of alternative funding methods.

I already gave a better idea. Build the roads to a higher standard in the first place. Put a thicker road bed down and put thicker asphalt down. It'll lead to less potholes and less need to resurface every few years. It'll also lead to less damage to vehicles. Try spending less on public sector unions and you could also go look at what NH does. They have worse weather yet much better roads for a lot less money. Oh yeah, stop paying cops for road details and get rid of that prevailing wage farce.

Yes, bitching does do something. It translates to political support.

So which is this? Just for publicity and pointless or an actual problem where they want to make us pay tolls on more roads? Pick one. You are talking out both sides of your mouth. It’s either a problem or it’s not. It’s either a real stupid attempt or it’s fake and for publicity.

And you STILL haven’t given one single idea on how to fund the roadway maintenance better. Come on. Stop moving the goalposts and answer the one and only question asked of you.

What’s your solution?

When the hell are they going to use the toll revenue to fix the offramps/bridges from I-90 to 95? Those bridges are practically made from Lincoln Logs and Silly Putty

Joe didn't back the unions either and now we have an ecological disaster in Ohio. I don't think there's any conception of Democrats supporting unions anymore.

I'm still catching up on all your laws after moving here last year and uh what the fuck? Your public employees can't strike? How can anyone consider this a blue state

Here it is. Just tragic

It’s actually in line with Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and the few other places that have pricing based traffic. Pricing mechanisms used to be a “conservative” value - not sure where the politics flipped

I know how bills work. Some are just grandstanding especially when the person sponsoring the bill says just that. Plenty of ridiculous bills are submitted at the state and federal level that the sponsors realize have no chance. They do it for publicity.

An actual bill doesn't need to be submitted to get people onboard with the idea. They're called cosponsors.

I think it’s reasonable to be skeptical of somewhat suspicious deaths, but I do think this one makes sense logically. These types of accidents do happen, and people don’t asphyxiate due to lack of oxygen in the container, but due to lack of oxygen intake ability (bent windpipe, compressed diaphragm, etc). This can especially happen if the person goes unconscious from lack of oxygen or initial impact of falling. There was a case awhile ago that I remember where someone in a school parking lot was trying to put a seat down or up in their car, crawled over the seat and ended up like bent in a way they couldn’t correct, and ended up getting stuck underneath and died due to asphyxia. I’ll link it if I can find it

If a worker can't strike, the worker is at best a serf, at worse a slave. All employees in any and every field ought to be able to strike.

Clickbait title is clickbait title.

If you are going to report news, you don't put your opinion as the title.

Hey that's a nice paragraph too bad I ain't reading it

My statement still stands. There are plenty of real murders. No need to create one when experts better at this than you have determined, based on an autopsy report you don’t have access to, on site evaluations you don’t have access to, that there was no murder. She was drunk, found in a place were other people have been accidentally killed before (recycling compactors have killed plenty of people, there’s a reason wait staff & and retail workers are told to NEVER climb in), and the cause of death is a common issue, especially for drunk people crammed into tight spaces. All of this makes sense.

If you think it’s sloppy work, prove it. Cite evidence. Don’t stir up bullshit because YOU think it’s exciting, or you know better, based on completely unsubstantiated imagined claims. Think about how the family would feel. This is shitty behavior on your part.

Good bye

Woburn teachers went on strike and got what they wanted. Government morons played that game of chicken for a whole week, but the workers refused to yield. Beautiful.

To all bad school "leaders" and the unqualified unintelligent government monkeys who prop them up - we're coming for you.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-woman-who-vanished-while-dumpster-diving-found-landfill-n1135696

Often enough that there is clearly no conspiracy here

Add in the fact that she was drunk, yeah. No secret murder here. Plenty of real ones, no need to create one

That’s not how bills work. They get discussed, debated, have modifications made, are analyzed in committee, revised again, and then they get voted on. How do you think you get people on board without having the specifics of the law written down?

Your solution is to rely on taxes that already don’t cover it and will continue to decline? You are just complaining about the past without anything better to offer. You don’t get it.

The turnpike authority is gone. The ability to shunt funds to other projects is gone. Fuel tax revenues are down. Federal funding is down. Costs are up. Your criticisms of the past and other highways that have nothing to do with the Pike are irrelevant. Provide another way to fund the maintenance or don’t bother complaining. Bitching does nothing to fix anything. If you know how to do it better, tell us. I’ll share it with the planners, DOT staff, and political representatives I work with daily. Give me a better idea and we’ll push it. Otherwise, sit down. You have nothing to offer

Fun fact, tolls on the pike predate the big dig by decades.

Why shouldn't commercial trucks pay? The damage to the roads goes up exponentially with the weight each tire puts on that surface. Trucks do vastly more damage to road surfaces than passenger cars.

Weather also does a lot of damage, obviously. That can be mitigated to a substantial degree by building roads to a better standard. They do this in places like Japan and colder countries in Europe. They also do it in NH and the result is the road costs more up front, but long term maintenance costs (fixing potholes) are lower.

There's also NFW states won't chase those road dollars.

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Often enough that there is clearly no conspiracy here

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1135696

Add in the fact that she was drunk, yeah. No secret murder here. Plenty of real ones, no need to create one

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