Roger Allbee: Transportation, past and future

This commentary by Roger Allbee, the soon to be retired CEO of Grace Cottage Family Health and Hospital in Townshend. He is a former secretary of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.It began just 200 years ago, on July 4, 1817, when the beginning of a 363-mile-long, 40-foot-wide and 4-foot-deep canal was begun, connecting the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, in the town of Rome, New York. It was completed eight years and four months later at a cost of $7.1 million. Tolls paid off