Andrew Morrison

@JudgementMonkey @JoeBrunoWSOC9 Sounds like it’s working in the express lane then, no? I.e., the toll is reducing the traffic *there*. I say more “free” roads (where we aren’t confronted with their high cost *as we use them*)=more traffic. “Free” roads=more cars—>sticker shock at highway expansion costs.

@AndrewWMorrison @JoeBrunoWSOC9 The logic is sound but try to find an example where it’s worked. I haven’t. More roads = more cars. I do see 485 fully packed and stopped with the express lane empty every day.

The view from NCDOT. Ultimately NCDOT does whatever CRTPO tells them to. You want the project dead? It’s dead. But, the region is rejecting $700 million and starting over. Any new project has to go through the whole process again. It may be 10 years before a new project is even considered. The $700 million will go to other communities and projects. All while traffic on I-77 gets worse. 160,000 vehicles use 77 a day and this part of 77 has a crash rate 2.5x higher than the statewide average, per DOT

@JudgementMonkey @JoeBrunoWSOC9 Maybe, but people *do* drive to work on a freeway because they want to work in one place and live in another, for whatever reason. If the price of astronomically expensive infrastructure is more directly borne by its users, seems like it would start to factor into those choices.

@AndrewWMorrison @JoeBrunoWSOC9 Toll roads do not reduce traffic or improve traffic flow. People don’t drive to work because they want to. A single statistic in isolation is propaganda. What is the accident rate on 77 North? 485 in the South? Nothing in the post about ‘why’ or the positive impacts.

@JudgementMonkey @JoeBrunoWSOC9 All seems objective and not opinion. If tollways aren’t alleviating traffic, don’t the tolls need to be higher? Or applied to all the lanes? Isn’t that what prices are for, to get supply and demand to equilibrium? Why can’t that apply here?

@JoeBrunoWSOC9 Damnit, Joe, there is your opinion interfering, again. Your implication that adding a toll road will do anything to alleviate traffic or accidents is pure conjecture and not supported by the actual impact on 77 North or the recently opened 485 segment in the south. Stop it!

@ForwardCarolina The story he posted is from 2024, well before the current drought, fwiw. Also, I’m pretty sure most of the water being transferred into the PeeDee basin is used by folks in the northern and eastern suburbs, not Charlotte proper, where most of the wastewater goes back to Catawba.

Whenever you see this guy's posts, just take a moment to reflect on how dumb, cruel and corrupt you must be to get fired by Donald Trump.

@alexsands_ How so?

This meeting got messy