The NHDOT Draft 10 Year Transpotation Improvement bullshit!

The Keene Sentinel touristy happyland. These guys just don’t want to put in any effort or context into their story.

 

So Concord, as in the past, is rewarding the town officials and our reps. The big reward they can feed to their constituents is we listen to you by putting it in the draft...but you have absolutely zero chance of it getting approved. You know that. We have been here many times before. The deal breaker is you got to get it past the NHDOT with them red listing the bridge...which is 50 years away. The bridge will be rust by then!

 

This is all about giving piss ant official a little credit when there is absolutely no chance of protecting their constituents. The below is from the NH Watchdog.   

You get Concord politician bullshit story, everyone squeaky wheel will get a honorable mention...but the piss ants really got no chance.  

"The first draft of New Hampshire’s Ten Year Transportation Improvement Plan includes recommendations for more than $3.5 billion in transportation project, but projects revenues of just under $2.6 billion over the next decade."

"The Ten Year Plan at one time included more than 30 years worth of projects before Former Transportation Commissioner Charles O’Leary worked to craft a more realistic document. 

Area officials made hopeful by projects' inclusion on draft transportation plan

Posted: Sunday, September 8, 2013 8:00 am

By Meghan Foley Sentinel Staff

Area officials made hopeful by projects' inclusion on draft transportation plan

The above phrase means the politicians want to stay happyface and make you think they are effective by not telling you the whole story. This is the worst of our politician's.

In Hinsdale, a proposed $45.7 million dollar project to replace the Charles Dana and Anna Hunt Marsh bridges over the Connecticut River with a new bridge downstream made the draft proposal of the 2015-24 N.H. Department of Transportation’s 10-year Transportation Improvement Plan, which was released Friday. The project is the second most expensive bridge project on the list. The most expensive is an estimated $140.4 million project to replace the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge connecting Portsmouth to Kittery, Maine, over the Piscataqua River.

The Hinsdale-Brattleboro bridges, which were built in the 1920s, are considered “functionally obsolete,” meaning they’re outdated and don’t meet current design standards. State officials first put a project to replace the bridges on the 10-year transportation improvement plan in fiscal year 1994. At the time, they slated the project for 1998 at a cost of $10 million. They bumped the project from the 2013-22 transportation improvement plan due to lack of funding.

Michael J. Darcy, chairman of the Hinsdale Board of Selectmen, said Friday the project’s inclusion in the draft of the 2015-24 transportation improvement plan shows the town has been doing the right thing in getting state officials to notice the situation.

“We’re always excited to see any positive movement on this. Hopeful we’ll be able to make what is on the draft become a reality, and get it done,” he said.

Debate about replacing the bridges has been ongoing since the early 1970s. Officials on both sides of the Connecticut River say maintaining a bridge connecting Hinsdale and Brattleboro is crucial to the economy and public safety of both communities.

Darcy said he is cautiously optimistic the bridge project, after making the draft list, will happen, and the selectmen’s next focus will be on making a case for the project at a public hearing later this month.

While the Hinsdale/Brattleboro bridge project is on the cusp of being put back on the state’s transportation improvement plan, officials in the Walpole and Charlestown area are pleased N.H. Department of Transportation officials are proposing to leave a road project in their region on the draft plan...