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   jimmyh43105 said, 11 months ago

   Must’ve been in Columbus, Ohio lately. Seems like construction here is never ending!
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 11 months ago

   Oregon’s the same way. The axle loads have reached the point where the asphalt and underlying cheap rock can’t handle the loadings. (They are more than twice what we designed with in the early 1990s). Sooooo, instead of using better materials, or concrete, ODOT just paves every year or two years. Ruts appear immediately, from the rock under the asphalt being crushed by the loads.
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   To get an idea, click on one of ODOT’s road cameras during the day on:

   http://www.tripcheck.com/Pages/CamerasEntry.asp
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   Redhead55 said, 11 months ago

   Sounds like Pinellas County, FL. Every DOT project seems to last forever. By the time they get a road widened it’s time to repave it.
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   PICTO said, 11 months ago

   Hell on wheels.
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   philyfanstukinmi said, 11 months ago

   We have only two seasons now, winter and construction
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   SwimsWithSharks said, 11 months ago

   Hell is other people.
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   Citizen GROG! said, 11 months ago

   There’s no escaping it around here.
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   stomps said, 11 months ago

   Orange cones frome coast to coast…
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   Big Sister said, 11 months ago

   @PICTO

   XD Great comment.
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    Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 11 months ago

    Funny, all these complaints about endless construction projects (shall I tell about the Cape Cod/Providence, RI corridor?) yet we keep getting union breastbeating about “Save Our Roads And Bridges Now!”
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    Slywlf said, 11 months ago

    We have 4 seasons in the Catskills – Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Roadwork! ;-)
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    lin4869 said, 11 months ago

    I-75 between Cincinnati and Dayton OH is never construction-free.
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    iced tea said, 11 months ago

    That’s the way of life in downtown Pittsburgh.

    3:)
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    INGSOC said, 11 months ago

    Hope that you had brought along some spare gasoline….
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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 11 months ago

    Re: Penny Robinson etc.
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    Infrastructure was all but abandoned by the Feds in 1993-1995. Roughly 80% of Federal funds (which was also most state’s funds) for bridges, pipelines, water, sewer, waterways, ports, gas lines, oil pipelines and so on, were rerouted into social spending to buy votes. Most Federal and State engineers were laid off. (8,000 in the Corps of Engineers alone.)
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    Put it this way: I was involved in the last major public works project that the country did: the American River Dam System. It was completed almost 15 years ago.
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    Right now, some 6000 bridges are in immediate danger of collapse (ASCE). Tens of thousands of bridges are almost that bad. The highways were mainly taken over by the states, but much of the former work that used to be done is just not done. Every so often in the last few years there is a leak, explosion or some such from gas pipelines that haven’t been maintained. Water and sewer leaks from lines that are 50, 75 or 100 years old have become commonplace. The power grid in most of the nation is a mess. California didn’t build a power plant for more than 25 years, importing 46% of its electricity from other states. (Which now are trying to be the same sponge that California is by abandoning their resources.) 80% of the petroleum in California is imported, despite having it’s own sources that it could use, and 60% of natural gas is imported, coming from two major pipelines, one from Canada and the other from the midwest.
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    Bottom line: for all the repaving, not many things have been actually built since the late 1990s. And much of the quality of the things that have been built recently, stinks.
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