It's a "Pitch". The usage case and benefit need to be clearly defined with evidence, not "I thinks..." if people only obeyed one person's every dictate. We have a God Mode thread specifically created for Civil Engineering Strongman Because Reasons excursions. Just because a Crazy pitch has unlimited resources behind it doesn't mean it's free from the burden of self-justification.
- What commutes does such an extremely time-consuming routing improve? Cite examples.
Honestly, I would rip out every road trip that can't pay for itself. This one moves a lot of traffic out of the downtown tunnels. Again, Ass-saving sea wall first, two lane road secondary. I want to get highway money if it's there. Anything to get public support behind building the Dutch style wall.
- How does it tie into the existing traffic patterns? How does barely functional Braintree Split ever possibly function with a fourth load-bearing leg attached to it? How do 93 North and Route 1 function with the required interchanges?
Think 1A and 3A. Nobody ever said expressway. This road takes traffic out of the mix because it connects closer to Plymouth than Quincy, taking traffic away from Route 3.
- If it's bootstrapping on climate change coping strategies, why are we encouraging still-greater mass proliferation of the same single-occupancy vehicle addiction that helped bring climate change to our doorstep sooner than ever?
I'm acknowledging the stupid we live in. As I stated above, I haven't owned a car in 20 years. I think we should build NSRL first. But I figure if we're building a sea wall to save our butts, we might as well build a road on it to appease the idiots.
- How are you going to get permitting for such environmentally destructive road infrastructure through a no-foolin' National Park? Explain how putting an environmental irritant like an expressway on top of the sea level barrier doesn't make the EIS'ing job infinitely harder.
There's a damn highway through Yellowstone. Think about it. Realistically, we aren't going to have that park in 50 years.
- How are you going to construct giant freight facilities out in said National Park when they require more of the landfilling that has made our City's terra firma so flood-vulnerable in the first place?
Giant? The two slip dock build (in Winthrop) is quicker than constanly dredging, maintaining the bridges, hiring the required security, tide timing, tugboats, and all the other headaches of going through the inner harbor to the Mystic Basin and Chelsea Creek.
These are probative questions about how the whole scheme is supposed to self-justify itself. You can't simply ad hominem and fling ideological epithets around to get out of attempting to answer why this thing should exist. At least attempt to moor this in a reason to exist rooted in evidence beyond personal opinion.