Re: Today's funny

Posted by paul on August 29, 2017 at 08:19:54 from (76.77.197.114):

In Reply to: Today's funny posted by Jon f mn on August 29, 2017 at 04:58:08:

My town is the crossroads of 2 major state highways. They share a mile of road crossing the river.

The town next is smaller and is the crossroads of 2 state highways. This year they did a major repaving to the west and to the north, on each state highway. The detours interconnected and criss crossed, to cross the river you had a 30+ mile detour through my town.

Also in my town thry replaced to the south, so to cross the small river you had to detour 6 miles on county roads.

The signs for these 3 detours criss crossed each other, I live here and know the roads and I was confused! You had no idea which of the three detours a sign was indicating. You were always crossing a tar cut, tires and alignment wear is terrible. One detour involved going down a 4 lane that is redipiced to 2 lane, the detour corner has the stop lights removed and 4 way stops, no turn lanes as the intersection is part of the road construction, but traffic from 3 main roads is routed through that intersection because it's the only way. On 2 of the corners of the intersection one side they are reroofing a large building, lots of construction equipment and workers, on the other corner thry are building a new bank, including ripping up the 4 lanes on that side to put in new utilities, and all the workers and construction equipment. That intersection is nuts.

Perhaps this fall yet, and for 2018 and 2019, they are going to tear out two bridges in my town, one 4 lane over the rail road, and one two lane over the river, as well as a Y intersection. This all will be rebuildpt into 2 new 2 lane bridges and an overpass/double roundabout. This is the short section of both shared state highways that cross the river into town. There are few river crossings here, so the detour will go past my mailbox on a county road, about 20 mile circle to get back to town on what is normally 5 miles. For 2 years, this affects both major state highways.

In short, you can't get there from here for a three year period.......

I think the infrastructure improvements are needed, long overdue. (Altho I do not understand reducing the one bridge from 4 lane to 2 lane, another case of Twin Cities dot crapping on rural MN taking money from rural areas to spend on down town Cities....)

but, the process of getting there really sucks. There are still the many small detours and county projects as usual, and with so much detoured and strung out, traffic is miserable around here, in the backwaters of rural Minnesota.

Paul

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