Safety First Before You Build a Parkway, $3.28 Million added Parkway Soil Bill?, and Parkway Climate Change

Safety, City taxpayers and climate change--all related to Champlain Parkway are the subject of three tweets this morning. It goes without saying that lack of any safe and separate walk and bike facilities in the Champlain Parkway is a non-starter when it comes to climate change emissions as travel along the Parkway corridor is only practical by motor vehicle (bus service also problematic as well as GMT terminal access), and even more important signals are a cesspool of climate emissions compared to a roundabout.

Here are the tweets:

Hero pilot Sully Sullenberger Saturday on 737 Max 8 crashes: “quality and safety pay for themselves...always better & cheaper to get it right than repair the damage after..." Re-design Champlain Pkwy. group targets no safe walk/bike facilities, no safe intersections #btv #vtpoli

Tweet March 17

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BTV facing $3.28 million taxpayer bill for Parkway contaminated soils—figure City Engineer Baldwin revealed at CCRPC Board last month? He says construction start 2019--Pine Street Coalition safety re-design cuts $43 million cost ~$8 million, likely soils $s too. #btv #vtpoli

The fight to re-design the Champlain Parkway here in BTV from the start included climate change—absence of separate and safe walk and bike facilities, half mile of unneeded street, 1,000s of gallons gas wasted yearly at intersections. Safety 1st of course. #btv #vtpoli

Tony Redington added,