• Ocelot@lemmies.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    And yet theres never any construction crew there working. A conspiracy theory I have is thats how they store traffic cones when not in use. Just shut down 1-2 lanes of a freeway for several miles.

    • Jamie@jamie.moe
      4·
      1 year ago

      My county started doing work on a section of high traffic road one summer a few years ago. They ran out of money to fund work on it, so it legit just stayed that way for like 2 years.

      They had no problem finding $3m to build a whole new high school gym at the same time though.

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
      4·
      1 year ago

      Well, they could pay the construction companies to focus on one project, do teo shufts and get shit done in a month, but that would cost like 30% more, so instead it is just going on in the regular pace for 6 months

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
      4·
      1 year ago

      It pisses me of so much! Years and years of construction on these long term projects, bit there’s never anyone around. Like they work 4 hours overnight and call it good.

  • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    The best signs are “this road will be closed from this date to this date, between the times X until Y” swiftly followed by the sign “lol we lied it is closed right now! Fuck you, take the worst backroad possible because the best diversion was halfway back!”

    Man, I have love my commute recently.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t that just the standard status on autobahns? Can’t remember ever crossing Germany and it not being like this.

    • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
      31·
      1 year ago

      Pennsylvania laughs in Amish

      Literally hell on Earth. I had to drive through Pennsylvania a few times in my life, specifically that part where the interstate stops being an interstate for like 3 blocks.

      I’m not making this up. The interstate stops being an interstate, forces you to go through this town built for and around everyone being forced to stop there, then you get back on the next interstate.

      But all along the way, for my entire life it has been under construction. Iirc, it goes down to one lane, and it takes like an hour to get through it.

      Honorable mentions: I-4 in Orlando, and 66 West in Northern Virginia, fucking awful, they will always be under construction.

      • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Sounds like you’re talking about Breezewood, PA where I-70 connects to the PA Turnpike, but there isn’t a direct connection. It’s an infamous stretch of highway with the truck stops there pretty much providing all the jobs in the area. Seriously, there’s like nothing else there.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        66 West in Northern Virginia

        If people would stop building mcmansions way out in Front Royal and Winchester and commuting into DC, we wouldn’t have to add a lane and rearrange it every two years.

        • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          I tell you brother, 66 was fucked before anyone would even consider living in FroRo. They had lead in the ground from a … I wanna say paint factory, or parachutes maybe or maybe paint for parachutes … That was there in WW2. (They say it’s better now, but I’d never live there)

          When they redid the lanes, but only made it go to Manassas, I mean that was just a big desperate gesture to keep all the richtards happy living out that way.

          Perhaps you’re right, but NoVA is still one place where you can make consistent good money. So there will never not be a draw, and they will never stop building the area up. Except for when COVID happened, I think some parts are still struggling to bounce back from that.