Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette Journal

Guests:
Jeff Fontaine, Director of the Nevada Department of Transportation
Pundits:
Connie McMullen, Publisher, Senior Spectrum Newspaper
Teresa Benitez-Thompson, Community Activist
Frank Roberson, Political Consultant

"That decision to build the freeway, where we’re building it today, was certainty not an engineering decision, it was a political decision and it was made over 20 years ago. In the past 20 years we’ve made investments in right of way, engineering so we couldn’t back away from that project. We have a similar project in Southern Nevada, the Boulder City bypass. Where we could have gone in and done a less expensive alternative alignment or construction of a bypass around town but the residents there, because of their quality of life and concern about the impacts, wanted an alternative that is further south of town, it’s gonna cost us more money. "

- Jeff Fontaine, Director of Nevada Division of Transportation, explaining that politics trumps engineering when some local communities force a more expensive alternative in where roads go.