In an article about her selection, the ENR said Peters “finds herself continually in the spotlight as the human face of the largest, greenest and most controversial highway to be built in metropolitan Washington, D.C., in decades.”
B’Spokes: Greenest??? Because they nixed the required bike trail because as we all know bike trails are environmentally unfriendly, while six lane highways are good for the Environment. [/sarcasm]
The ICC is one of the biggest scams shoved down Maryland’s throat. But won’t it have some useful purpose? Sure, just like a gold plated Hummer with a grass planter on the roof has some useful purpose and is “environmentally friendly” but that’s not the point, the ICC will not solve the problems it was touted to solve and at billions of dollars it will never pay for itself, even with one of the highest toll rates in the nation (most highway projects are in the millions, not billions.)
Through out the life of the ICC my jaw has been just on the floor about all the underhanded tricks and scams to push the ICC through. Fast tracking to reduce the possibility of the public killing the highway yet again, threatening to fire any government employee on Maryland Bicycle Advisory Committee that would vote against killing the full and complete bike trail, calling bike trails environmentally unfriendly and expensive. And now “lets put a pleasant face on this”, this is just snake oil salesman tactics and whitewashing. I am just disgusted.
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