I move enough that highway construction tends to be permanent. I'll move in somewhere, it'll be going on, and then a few years later I'll move out, and it will still be going on. Whether they ever finish or just move where they're constructing, I'll never know. But I hate seeing it start.
There’s a highway where I live (only roughly 150 miles long) that has literally had at least one section of it being “upgraded” for the last two decades. Because they deliberately do it in such a way that is never “future-proofed”, and the materials and methods they use are only ever good for 5 years or so into the future…
Subcontractors, this is, who have a cushy relationship with the state government and the local car lobby…
It’s so deliberate and blatant that it’s quite shocking, and yet, and yet, people still keep voting for the politicians who put forward this shit, as actual policy…
It’s incredibly frustrating. Especially when you have to drive on/near it, as I do occasionally…
It will literally never end, lol. They just keep bumping up immigration (mostly from Nepal and Africa, now), and then using the resulting “population growth” to justify literally whatever they want…
Where I used to live they had turnpikes that literally were under permanent construction. They'd close one lane and slow down traffic - for miles - until it was completed then they'd open it and close the other side. Then when that was finished they'd repeat the first side. Went on for years and years like that.
To be fair the completed lane was always in tip-top shape.
To be fair the completed lane was always in tip-top shape.
Not the interstate, but I feel like what they do on the side streets here is start at the end of a path and then when they "finish" just start at the other end again. I mean that probably is literally what they do since it would make sense to have crews on repaving duty all the time. They'll never run out of work to do. This ain't Arizona. roads are shit after a couple years.
I honestly never expected to see the Seattle Viaduct torn down and be able to drive through the tunnel replacing it, to the point where I went out of my way to drive through it the one time I had the opportunity to do so.
I hear they've been working on the same section of highway near the Tacoma Dome for over 20 years now. I know they were working on it back in the early 2000s, and they were still at it when I visited there a year or two ago.
For perspective, the US spent less than 4 years fighting in World War II. Millions of soldiers trained, tens of thousands of ships, aircraft, and tanks built, and they could have done it all over again fives and still it would be less time than it has taken to rebuild a couple miles of highway in Washington State.
For more perspective, the S-1 "Uranium Committee" was created in 1940, the Manhattan Project started in 1942, and the first atomic bomb tested only 3 years later in 1945. The Hiroshima bomb deployed only a month later.
There's a road near my commute that has had "road work" being done to it for the last 15 years. I never go that way, but I have to wonder what the hell they are doing that has taken that long.
If they plan/budget for 10 it'll take at least 15.
I move enough that highway construction tends to be permanent. I'll move in somewhere, it'll be going on, and then a few years later I'll move out, and it will still be going on. Whether they ever finish or just move where they're constructing, I'll never know. But I hate seeing it start.
There’s a highway where I live (only roughly 150 miles long) that has literally had at least one section of it being “upgraded” for the last two decades. Because they deliberately do it in such a way that is never “future-proofed”, and the materials and methods they use are only ever good for 5 years or so into the future…
Subcontractors, this is, who have a cushy relationship with the state government and the local car lobby…
It’s so deliberate and blatant that it’s quite shocking, and yet, and yet, people still keep voting for the politicians who put forward this shit, as actual policy…
It’s incredibly frustrating. Especially when you have to drive on/near it, as I do occasionally…
It will literally never end, lol. They just keep bumping up immigration (mostly from Nepal and Africa, now), and then using the resulting “population growth” to justify literally whatever they want…
Absolutely wild. So I feel your pain…
Where I used to live they had turnpikes that literally were under permanent construction. They'd close one lane and slow down traffic - for miles - until it was completed then they'd open it and close the other side. Then when that was finished they'd repeat the first side. Went on for years and years like that.
To be fair the completed lane was always in tip-top shape.
Not the interstate, but I feel like what they do on the side streets here is start at the end of a path and then when they "finish" just start at the other end again. I mean that probably is literally what they do since it would make sense to have crews on repaving duty all the time. They'll never run out of work to do. This ain't Arizona. roads are shit after a couple years.
And yet 2000 year old Roman roads are still in use today, with 0 maintenance.
I honestly never expected to see the Seattle Viaduct torn down and be able to drive through the tunnel replacing it, to the point where I went out of my way to drive through it the one time I had the opportunity to do so.
I hear they've been working on the same section of highway near the Tacoma Dome for over 20 years now. I know they were working on it back in the early 2000s, and they were still at it when I visited there a year or two ago.
For perspective, the US spent less than 4 years fighting in World War II. Millions of soldiers trained, tens of thousands of ships, aircraft, and tanks built, and they could have done it all over again fives and still it would be less time than it has taken to rebuild a couple miles of highway in Washington State.
For more perspective, the S-1 "Uranium Committee" was created in 1940, the Manhattan Project started in 1942, and the first atomic bomb tested only 3 years later in 1945. The Hiroshima bomb deployed only a month later.
You are bad luck, my man
Or it just takes 4 years for the government to do any construction project, and I move every 3.
There's a road near my commute that has had "road work" being done to it for the last 15 years. I never go that way, but I have to wonder what the hell they are doing that has taken that long.