MoDOT receives $1 million grant for truck parking on I-70

Yipeeeee, we're 10 years closer now.

Where's the rest of the money coming from ???

Environmental impact study will cost approx. $999,999.00

That leaves only $1 for actual parking spaces.

 

Let's see...Bernie's brother in law will win the contract. Two Toe Joey will administer it...Tony Bonano will disperse the cash...
One million? what's that come to...100 parking spaces with too thin asphalt over a mud base?
Oh, yea...this is GREAT news!

 

This aint brain surgery. Take a look at I-80 in Wyoming and replicate where space is available.

 

Don't put it past the Great State of Misery to put those spaces in the weigh station next to the scale house- where they can watch you even closer and inspect your equipment anytime they want.

In fact, I'll predict they just dig up the asphalt and pour concrete in it's place with spaces for about ten or twelve trucks.

 

By the time all the greasy fingers get out of the cookie jar, they'll build a wider gravel shoulder on one of the exit ramps with a blue barrel trash can.

 

This will be one of those stimulus infrastructure jobs that most of the money will go to the worker! So that means like the last stimulus the job will cost about $1,028,000 per job so that means no parking will be built due to 1 worker looking at maps to see where a good place is to not put any parking!

Besides 1 million measly dollars for a parking lot? Asphalt is over $130,000 an acre now! What are they going to do? Buy a few acres from a farmer and make it dirt parking? $1,000,000 won't buy crapola for any kind of parking area! Sounds like another waste of money letting the gooberment build something!

 

Look what Indiana did with their $$$$$ and building rest areas/truck parking. They recently built and opened a very large rest area on I-70 West...not 40 miles from the large rest area at mm 107 on I-70 west. Since it's been opened, I've never seen this rest area even half full. Oh well, forgot what my whole point was now

 

Oh I've seen both of them at the 107 filled up many times after they opened it! Even to the point of the ramps being filled! Never had a problem with being woken up by DOT OR working girls as they do keep those cameras working! The one just west of Effingham on the EB side is nice also not to mention those monster ones on the toll road in IN. Those are the kinds of parking needed nation wide along with buildings with food 24/7 and showers. I remember when all the businesses got all in a huff and stopped many states from opening food and services on the toll and interstates claiming that it would be putting them in competition with the state and they would lose a lot of money which I and a lot of us called BS on! We can't get into 90% of the gas stations and restaurants if there is no truck parking but they got their way but if they had been using their brains and bid on the stores that the state would allow in the rest areas they would have expanded their companies to the trucking side of the traffic. The states should allow bids so that the state and government can reduce costs OR go ahead and compete with those places that can't open or expand to a new market. I do believe that if the goverment did open their own support for trucks it could help with income and employing Americans which is sorely needed! It would also get them off our arses by giving us places to REST which Joan Claybrook and her ilk keep screaming for!

 

You know I was thinking about parking and how they are going about this. Instead of spending 1 million on new parking, Which probly wont amount to much and it will also need to be maintained. Instead off incentives to buisnesses to create more parking. What if they went to truck stop owners and said, you buy the parcel of land next to your current lot. Develop it into truck parking and that land is tax free for X amount of years.

To me that sounds like a much better way of going about it. The government creates more jobs, creates more parking, does not have to maintain it, does not have to put forward any money. The truckstops get tax free land and added patronage. Truckers get more parking and parking where there are services. Its a win win all the way around.