COUNT US! asks:

Will more of the same provide a better result?

The map here is a US Department of Transportation graphic showing the "Estimated Average Annual Daily Truck Traffic"

Indiana appears in bright red, perhaps the most densely traveled state in the USA, certainly for it's geographical size.

COUNT US! questions, why are we are not already one of the top economy's in the USA?  If you and your neighbor are not profiting from the trucking industry in our state, why believe in internationally private tolling our transportation routes and mortgage our future for a quick INDOT budget "pop"?  Will this really benefit long-range quality of life and prosperity?

The expense of INDOT is a budget choice.  We do not have to agree that more is needed every time they make the claim.

INDOT,  Refocus on your mission.

Those who claim that INDOT is under funded might claim the map above proves the need for more roads. It is known as the "we are not keeping up" argument.

Note that we are "keeping up".

No... Indiana is solid with roads.  INDOT just keep doing what you are doing, the way you have been doing it.

We certainly don't need four generations long "leases" and eminent domain acquisitions of Hoosiers homes, businesses and farm's for foreign owned rural toll roads!

The bottom line, thinking of INDOT as an economic development tool is erred reasoning.

The Department of Transportation is that and only that. We need transportation engineering without the puffed up economic savior attitude.

Information from:

Mississippi Valley Freight Corridors Coalition
http://www.mississippivalleyfreight.org
and US FHWA / US DOT

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