Monday, August 3, 2009

Traffic planning for Fresno/Visalia, CA

My planning anyway, it was coming.

I start with high speed bus between the two towns, covering 35 miles. The high speed bus transit serves as core feeder for rapid bus transit arteries into the cities. The completed system should add 5% growth, nominal for a few years. It will join labor markets in the two towns, provide more regional shopping, and lead to freight automation. The districts between the two towns become updated economically.

The site will be a test bed for an array of intelligent traffic technology. The speedway is built on an underutilized older highway and tested at speeds up to 140 MPH.

Cost of paving, well if the State does it, 20 million. But if I do it the cost is, $2 million. If CA won't play them send a federal bureaucrat to chat. Intelligent intersections will be 20 grand and up. I can get a speedway for less than a half billion and get a very fast shuttle between the towns, and start tomorrow. The world's first, a marvel.

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