Posted
8/22/2005 05:38:00 PM
by Douglas
Alternative Headline: Houston Traffic Engineer wants tunnels, smokes
crack. Gonzalo Camacho remains convinced that running 14.5 miles of Interstate 45 under the ground would cost less, be built faster, displace fewer people and businesses, and create less air pollution than any conventional, above-ground road design.
"It's a no-brainer. It would be a large error that would be with us for a long time if the elected officials didn't get behind the tunnel idea," said Camacho, a transportation engineer and the most public proponent of making Houston home to the longest tunnel in the United States.
Is Houston somehow falling behind the nations in the "longest" or "biggest" categories? Why does Mr. Camacho want to make up for all of this with the "biggest flooding fatality" in the United States? Let's take a brief step back and remember Tropical Storm Allison. Which
above ground freeways were under water during that storm? Oh yeah. . . .
All of them!!!You may be a brilliant traffic engineer, but this isn't one of your brightest ideas.