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Article: Time to get serious about transportation alternatives.(NORTON ON REAL ESTATE)
- Article from:
- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- August 18, 2006
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August arrived with hot, hazy and humid weather. The blueberries were great, the tomatoes are bulging on the vines. The corn--well, not a great year for corn. While the spring floods are behind us, road repairs are ongoing. And despite the cost of oil and labor, asphalt repaying projects are everywhere. Like it or not, we are mostly a suburban and rural state, and therefore we rely on roads to get us to and from home, work, play, school, shopping--you name it. We also need good roads to deliver and receive our goods and services. Truck traffic, called freight in transportationese, is projected to grow much faster than either jobs or the general population.
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