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    The TCA, or Transportation Corridor Agencies wants to extend the 241 Toll Road through the center of historical San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. Extending this toll road would create countless complications for these cities. Although many claim that a toll road would reduce traffic, in actuality, it would jeopardize the health of numerous people and the construction for this massive project would last for a lengthy time. First of all if a new road was to be built, it would increase the amount of air pollution. Having another road near houses is an ill-conceived idea. All of the volatile organic compounds emitted from cars are harmful to our bodies. Diesel fuel is one of the leading cause of cancer. Not to mention, the copious amount of dust that forms would trigger allergies and asthma attacks. For over a decade, air quality officials from California have warned against building roads within 500 feet of homes. People nearby these roads…

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    in the title sequence.. The video does not have any static shots and the theme of driving is being conveyed by the familiar road signs (whit white arrows and metal barriers), even the text of the credits gives an abstract feeling of traffic: the credits dash on screen from the left, halt, then rush off-screen to the right. The rhythm of both this Action and the editing is synchronized with the rhythm of the music. The sequence uses the song Woke Up This Morning by London-based band Alabama 3.…

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    Title: Most Expensive Toll Roads in America Do you like toll roads? Many of you would answer a big NO to this question. But can you still avoid using these toll roads? You will answer NO to this question as well. The reason is the other roads are either too long or they are not convenient for you to drive. So, for you to save some money and also to enjoy your ride on the roads, here is the list of a few most Expensive Toll Roads in America. Try to avoid at least these toll roads from the next…

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    highways and along with highways comes a toll charge. Many states use tollways to refund to the damage done on roads throughout years, but this is also very expensive for travelers. As stated by the Illinois Toll Way “The average toll rate on the Illinois Tollway is 6 cents per mile. The typical rate for a passenger vehicle at a manned toll plaza is 75 cents I-PASS/$1.50 cash. I-PASS customers pay 50 percent less than customers who pay cash.” Toll fees are highly charged and should be revoked…

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    Living In Baton Rouge

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    Living in Baton Rouge is a daily struggle for me and I'm pretty sure a lot of other people from early morning and especially late afternoon, not because of the humidity and not because of the bad road conditions but Baton Rouge’s awful traffic. Every day for approximately 45 minutes to an hour I have no choice but to deal with the traffic, because I work in WBR and there’s only two ways to enter into EBR from WBR, the New Mississippi Bridge or as I know it the old bridge. It’s becoming one of…

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    Route 53 is a road that thousands of people utilize everyday, with so many people commuting on it, there are talks about expansion to help speed up commutes, however, Route 53 should not be extended because the project would be costly for commuters, homeowners, and the general taxpayers. One way that it is costly is simply the cost of the projects. The expansion is projected to cost from 2.2 billion to 2.7 billion dollars of taxpayer money. What this will be used for it to buy the land that is…

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    in the economy including congested roads. The answer to this question will focus on externalities associated with additional individual's driving on a congested road. This question will also give some ideas on how tolls may help alleviate this externality, where tolls are not helpful, and how they may be set. Externalities in the field of economics are either positive or negative and usually happen to unrelated third parties. (Stiglitz & Rosengard, 2015). Most externalities in economics are…

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    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” This quote by Cormac McCarthy refers to the main conflict present in The Road: the need to survive and to persevere through the challenges the characters encounter. Along their journey, a father and son discover more about their morals and values and how to continue on in dire circumstances. In The Road, McCarthy develops moral dilemmas using character development and imagery in order to show that destruction and death can exist…

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    Suburban Sprawl

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    relationships both on the roads and off, and if this set of problems is aggravated by increasingly long and difficult commutes on crowded roads, then sprawl may in this manner threaten mental health” (2002: 208). Public transportation in many parts of Georgia is very complex and tend to be not as useful as people desire. Cherokee county currently has a public transportation system, but it only remains within the county. All public transportation busses, including rideshare, are allowed to use…

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    Traffic On I-35 Analysis

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    traffic even more and at the rate of people moving in the idea of upgrades would be pointless. “There has been a growing recognition that Interstate 35, regardless of the many proposed upgrades, will not ever be capable of efficiently moving people in the region.” (Passenger rail vital, needs fresh start Austin American-Statesman (TX) - August 7, 2016). The idea of having toll lanes put into place was brought up by State Sen. Kirk Watson, he thought that by building the lanes that it wouldn’t…

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