Posted on 11/06/2015 6:49:00 AM PST by C19fan
It took me almost 3 hours to drive 50 miles in LA yesterday. 405/105
Nope, well aware of the national campaign. Just playing with ya.
CC
Before I retired, I commuted everyday to Chicago from the suburbs in Downers Grove, to get to work at UIC. I would take either I-55 (Stevenson Expressway) or I-94 (Eisenhower Expressway). Both sucked, and as I lived in the Western suburbs, I would have the setting sun poking me in the eye on the way home everyday the sun was out. Did that for years; the traffic was usually horrendous, and on a snowy day, it could take me up to 2 hours or more to get home. So glad I am now retired and only have to “deal” with it when watching the poor saps on the evening news traffic reports.
That was an intentional action of the Perry/Williamson team to make the road so bad that folks would embrace the ‘Trans Texas Tollroad’ from Mexico to points north. Now that Perry and his foreign partners have been beaten back by the people, they are making some long-overdue repairs which are just compounding the traffic jams.
Design changes, like 10-15" roadways and better sub-road construction, have improved durability, but older roads were not built in the same manner so they suffer from failure now years down the line.
A sheepsfoot roller equipped with Intelligent Compaction equipment.
One of the most important pieces of equipment for road construction, IMO.
They are ALWAYS working on I-35 in or near Hillsboro.
But the worst thing about I-35 is not the road itself - it’s the drivers. Everyone stacks up in the left lane - passing or not. It’s as if no one wants to give up their precious spot in line. Frustrating.
In Detroit on I-94 it’s the 8 story Uniroyal tire. In one of its more recent iterations it’s grown a 12 foot long nail to promote its run-flat tires.
CC
Grrrrrrr
PennDot is horrible. After I moved to York PA but was still working in Hunt Valley MD, one morning I left for work at my usual time and traffic was staking up on I83 just before the Glen Rock exit. The right lane was closed all the way to the MD line, some 10 mines - during morning rush hour. Why? Well a couple of PennDot workers were in a pickup truck riding the shoulder and spraying the side of the road for mosquitoes causing a 1 1/2hour traffic delay during morning rush hour. And that is just one of my many PennDot horror stories.
And to think it's actually better that it used to be.
It starts well ebfore 8 and goes way later than 6!
I am so glad I left boston after my work on the Big Dig was done.
Yeah - CBE makes for some fun white-knuckled driving. I remember going back and forth from NJ to NH - coming back one time and on E - had to get off on Jerome Ave at 2AM - never pumped gas so fast in my life.
We used to count the cars stripped as skeletons on the side of the road.
I ran a job on the Cross Bronx. Even working 10PM to 6 AM, our concrete trucks got rejected all the time because they sat in traffic too long. Insane.
I am going to name my next beer “Responsibly” Ale. What great, free advertising!
They’re rebuilding the 5 through town here and use those things. They are also laying down asphalt as a base and then concrete with rebar on top of that. It’s taking forever but may be worth it.
Either way, I'm glad I don't have to drive it either. I can't wait to get out of MA altogether. Soon. Soon.
What I really love are those gorgeous walls along the freeway with designs and everything. Some are over 25 feet tall, just to keep the sounds and sights of the freeway from nicer neighborhoods I assume. Now why can’t they build a wall completely across our border with Mexico? If necessary, put it on Mexico’s side of the border, and tell them to shove it if they don’t like it.
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