The Charlottesville Bypass, from just about every angle, is an extraordinary waste of taxpayer funds at a time when the state has no money for road construction.
by Randy Salzman
With $16.4 trillion in U.S. debt and the possible sequester as daily topics in America, our state is on the verge of building a $244 million highway in Albemarle County that provides only $8 million in public benefits, according to the only return-on-investment study. The highway, known as the Charlottesville Bypass, is projected to save truckers a minute off the full-day drive to New York, according to three separate analyses.…[ Read more ]