Seth Grossman appearance on WPG Radio. 6.28.Colossal Failure Forgotten and Normalized. DRPA (Delaware River Bay Authority) was created in 1962 to build a 17 mile Bay Bridge-Tunnel from Cape May to Lewes Delaware. The ferries were supposed to be temporary! Delaware Memorial Bridge tolls were doubled to pay for it. Where did the money go? Zohran Mamdani, NYC Mayor? Mamdani is the future. We Boomers taught our children to hate America. When we are gone nobody will know the wonderful things our country did. Islam. Sharia Law. Eustace Mita, Ocean City What are kids learning? Cost of College A lot of times, the most important issues are buried in the back of the newspaper. And sometimes the most important stories are not published at all. Two weeks ago, we had a classic example. The article in the Press of Atlantic City last began, "Joel Coppage of Wilmington, Delaware will become the sixth executive of the Delaware River Bay Authority, the DRBA". Click here for the link to that article: Wilmington man tapped to lead DRBA starting in July That's the agency that, runs the Delaware Memorial Bridge, both bridges there, the Cape May Lewis ferry, and five local airports. Why is this important? It seems almost normal that you have this very expensive, very political government agency running these ferries, running the bridges and running the five airports. But why this agency was created in 1962 in the first place? They don't even mention it. And because they don't even mention it, you have no idea what a colossal waste and failure this whole agency is. Do you know the story of it? JOHN DEMASI: No. I don't. SETH GROSSMAN: Back in 1960, Virginia started building a 17 mile Bay Bridge-Tunnel to connect, the bottom of what's called the Delmarva Peninsula to Virginia Beach. If you take the ferry from Cape May down to Lewes, Delaware and start driving south towards Virginia Beach, you have a nice drive, and then you go over this 17 mile bridge tunnel, and then you end up in Virginia Beach. And that 17 mile bridge goes over the Chesapeake Bay. Well, construction on that Bay Bridge Tunnel, which was a marvel of engineering at the time, began in 1960. Before they built that Bay Bridge Tunnel, Virginia had ferries going back and forth from the bottom of that peninsula to Virginia Beach. So in 1962, New Jersey said this is a great idea. When Virginia finishes building its bridge, they're going to have those ferries. So lets buy those Virginia ferries. Let's run between Cape May, New Jersey and Lewis, Delaware, which is also a 17 mile gap. And let's do exactly what Virginia did. Let's run those ferries temporarily, and lets double the tolls on the Delaware Memorial Bridge. And let's use the money from doubling the tolls to build our own bridge from Cape May to Lewis, Delaware. It's the same distance. We can use the same engineers, and almost the identical plans. And that was supposed to start in 1964. So in 1964, Virginia finishes its bridge. And, and we get their ferries. And then what happens? We double the tolls of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, but we never build our own bridge tunnel between, Cape May and Lewes Delaware. We just keep running the ferries. They're collecting all this extra money from doubling the tolls on the Delaware Bridge. What did they do with the extra money? They built an amusement park. They bought five airports. They did all sorts of things. They did everything except the one thing they were supposed to do. And now 63 years later, we're still paying double the tolls on everything. Not even a plan for a 17 mile bay bridge tunnel to Lewes, Delaware. Today, nobody even knows that's why they created the agency to begin with! JOHN DEMASI:Wow. What a story. SETH GROSSMAN: Well, it gets even better. Virginia, which built the original 17 mile Bay Bridge Tunnel, used tolls to pay back the cost of building it in about six years.
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