TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND
INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP
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Where I live, incompetent
leadership has created heavy traffic.
Okay, I can easily
point my finger at our legislators because they’re politicians. Politicians are, by nature, incapable of or
unwilling to make sound decisions while looking forward, not backward. No, rather than acting in advance these
b@st@rds always wait until the horse is already out of the barn and way down
the road. Their standard comment is, “We didn’t see that coming!”
Sure they
did! In my part of the state,
legislators foresaw the need for expansion and redesign of many roads. That was in 2015 when studies showed
accelerated growth demanding an increase in traffic infrastructure. From widening roads to securing and widening
bridges to reprogramming and installing new traffic signals, they saw the need.
They just chose to
ignore it. Like the L.A. Wildfires,
there were warning signs that were completely ignored by government. Ours is a wildfire of traffic congestion and
it comes about through the incompetence and corruption of our leadership. Hmm, it would seem that L.A. and Ada Counties have a lot in common.
Taking their ‘cut’ from developers, our leaders have allowed
high density housing in places where it never should have been, such as along
and just off northern State Street.
That stretch passes Boise, Garden City and Eagle.
When you tear down
four homes and replace them with 120 homes there are bound to be infrastructure
issues. Utilities and sewer not
withstanding, traffic congestion is unavoidable.
When you have over
1,000 homes in a 1-mile stretch of a main road, that road gets real crowded
real quick! The morning rush sees all of
these people, all on State Street, heading to work in the morning and their
way home after work.
Hello “Rush Hour!”
This road is not only crowded, but the scene of numerous and frequent accidents
and infractions. Drivers are, by nature,
dumb @sses! They’ll speed, cut through lanes without
signaling and tailgate at 10 to 20mph over the limit. They’ll do practically anything if they think
it will get them home even 60 seconds earlier.
As motorists dart
and dodge their way up and down our overcrowded thoroughfares something comes
quickly to mind: There is no policing! In the past 8 years in which I have lived
along State
Street [State Highway 44] I have scene fewer than a dozen police managing
traffic. Sure, Boise City cops show up about 20 minutes after an
accident, but that’s about the only time you really see them.
The city of Boise is cleaning up on a contract with the
state, and rather than police that stretch of highway they choose to respond to
incidents and accidents as long as they can spare a patrol car. They rarely beat the paramedics or fire
department to the scene. I’ve seen a car
go up on a wrecker and hauled off before any cops show up.
If we closed all
donut shops along State from Boise to Eagle, I bet the Boise P.D. would have a
significantly improved response time.
Enough of
that. The problem here is that our
legislators have kicked this can down the road for a really long time. What in Hell are they doing with our tax
dollars anyway?
I’ll bet they
wouldn’t like you to know where much of that money REALLY goes!
Elevated rail or
dedicated bus lanes are the only workable solutions. State Street already borders along billions
of dollars worth of merchant property, manufacturing facilities and residential
property.
Any attempt to
widen the road by even a single lane would result in law suits the likes of
which no state has ever seen! Hell, if
the government finally won ‘right of way’
through the courts, they wouldn’t have enough money left to do the road work.
We’re facing
incompetent legislators, corrupt legislators and part time legislators. Unelected bureaucrats really run the show
because the legislators are either in someone’s pocket or just too
disinterested to give a damn.
Even as the
California Invasion began, legislators ignored the problem until it was
entirely too late. Sporting a “Legislator” license plate on their prestigious
cars and huge trucks, means more to them than their legislative duties.
We’re facing
incompetent and arrogant motorists. ‘Road rage’ and ‘distracted
driving’ are on the rise and, as people become more belligerent and their
I.Q.s slip into the mid-double-digits, the situation only gets worse.
Give Karen a
pickup truck and that’s all she wrote.
There’s a sense of invulnerability and invincibility when you enter the
cab of a Ford F350 Super Duty. There’s something about that sky-high cab and a
diesel power plant under the hood. It’s
“Screw anyone and everyone” this pickup driver might maim or kill.
The solution here
is to create a new class of driver license that covers all pickups any bigger
than a minivan or weighing over 2 tons.
According to my
friend at DMV, the majority of people taking the written test ‘barely pass’.
The test itself isn’t ‘rocket science’,
and it’s about as easy as it can be and still be called a ‘test’.
If there was a
separate class driver license needed for any vehicle over than 2 tons we’d be well
on the way. It would need to be much
tougher. Much more difficult testing including
parallel parking a ½ ton manual transmission pickup, would really weed out the morons.
Finally, we really
need law enforcement along such stretches of highway as Eagle Road, State Street, etc.
Where are the cops? Do we need to
hire more? Do we need to give police a
pay raise? Do we need to treat them as
respected peace officers? Do we need to
shut down the donut shops during peak traffic times?
It’s time we did something
because people are losing livelihood, freedom, and lives as a result of
overcrowded highways and an almost total lack of policing.
I’m Max, and that’s the way I see it!
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