-=> BOB ACKLEY wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

 BA> Many years ago in this very echo tbe discussion was about just that
 BA> threat of withholding federal highway dollars from states that wouldn't
 BA> kowtow to the federal bureaucracy.  I said at the time that if I were
 BA> Nebraska's governor (I was living in Nebraska at the time) and the feds
 BA> shut off the highway money, I wouldn't patrol, maintain or plow I-80 -
 BA> which would effectively cut off east-west motor vehicle traffic north
 BA> of Kansas City.  Were that the situation now, I-80 would be under about
 BA> six feet of snow for a distance of about 300 miles

Yeah, the last time they made that threat to Kentucky, I was not happy with
it, either.  However, Kentucky is usually a concubine state of DC so they
are not likely to throw up much of a fuss.  If they did not get the federal
dollars, they'd have been in deep do-do for a while now.

I think your idea is a good one.  KY has a couple of major Interstates
running north-south (I75 & I-65), and will soon be a full-part of the I-69
corridor.  They could make some havok not maintaining or worrying-with
those highways (especially 75) but, as I said, they would never do anything
like that.

Mike


... Got my tie caught in the fax... Suddenly I was in L.A.
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