That damn construction seemed like it lasted ten years, but I think it was only six or seven...I think.
Nearly every day, I felt like that character in the movie "Falling Down"...
Posted on 08/02/2021 12:40:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hahaha that was EXACTLY what was in my head...:)
I guess if you live there you get used to it...it’s that “dry heat”...!
lol, that was pretty much it. It was their job to fix this freeway, so it was shop talk for them. Then they asked me what was so funny about it because I was busting up. I told them what was causing those. But it couldn’t be helped. Even with a long 4x8 wood block under the jack to distribute the weight it still punched a hole in the road the size of the block.
That damn construction seemed like it lasted ten years, but I think it was only six or seven...I think.
Nearly every day, I felt like that character in the movie "Falling Down"...
You ain’t seen nuthin’ ‘til you’ve seen Tucson and surrounding Pima County roads. The Rats rule that roost and it’s very obvious that roads are not a priority.
Ca has special binding oil. It is environmentally friendly again. And doesn’t work even without the rubber. But the rubber made it even 20 times worse.
I’m an inmate at Maricopa Jail in Pinal County. We have 1 road into and out of the Valley, and it’s 2 lanes in either direction, complete with several stoplights, which is always fun on a “highway.” We’re growing like crazy out here, but the land around us is tribal and it’s been difficult to get them and ADOT to agree on a plan for transportation relief. Maybe we’ll be next tho.
It’s equity. You all deserve bad roads because they’re also bad in Russia and Guatemala.
Just like canceling Keystone and approving Nordstream II.
Yikes!
BOOKbump
In the very early 1970’s I attended a meeting in Phoenix about the future of transportation and specifically freeways in Phoenix. Most of the city leaders were there. There was a group of folks who said, “If you don’t build freeways the traffic will go somewhere else and not come to Phoenix.” I remember looking to the fellow next to me and saying, “Where do these people come from?”
The author should drive L.A. freeways for a while - after that the Phoenix system seems miraculously clean, uncrowded, and well-designed.
Fortunately, I seldom leave the Northeast Valley, so I have little need to drive the affected section of I-10.
The Broadway Curve has always been a pinch point, at least since 1981 when I moved here from Southern California.
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