New exit ramp in Chesterfield to cost as much as 4 Capital Trails....

I can promise you most people don't move out there because they like commuting. I'll give you a real response since my last was kinda snarky.

Life is about compromise and you may understand why people do compromise one day. Everyone starts off idealistic. Hell, I'll give you my example because it fits pretty perfectly. I moved from the museum district to hull and now live in Midlo like yourself. I left Hull after 2 years because the traffic is terrible and the commute was longer then I wanted, and I left downtown because the schools and the neighborhood wasn't what I wanted to raise a child in. I would love to move back downtown, but my old shitty Park ave house just sold for significantly more then double what my bigger Midlo house costs, in a worse neighborhood with much worse schools(private is too much $$$, RPS can't seem to get its act together).

As for the money, its because thats a growing area. All of the 288 corridor is growing, honestly all of 288 needs to be widened from 64 to Hull. More people and more businesses are out there causing more traffic, but also generating more revenue. Growth is good! Growth is more tax revenue to pay for all this! With growth we need more infrastructure. I will say $300mill sounds like a shit load, but I'm also not qualified as a civil engineer to really say if it is outrageous or what a project like that should cost, just that it is needed and those people are paying taxes for stuff like this. Also the 300 million is for multiple projects according to the article, not just the Hull/288 ramp.

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