WE LET OUR LEGISLATORS SCREW US DOWN INTO THE POSITION WE NOW FIND OURSELVES IN!

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!