Posted on 08/18/2019 12:52:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Nothing says “welcome to the third world” quite like entering Jasper County, South Carolina on Interstate 95.
Traveling from Georgia, the highway narrows from six lanes to four lanes – with rusty guardrails flanking the roadside. Trash is everywhere, greeting visiting motorists as they pass through a 1990s-era stucco display that might as well be the entrance to a drug kingpin’s barn – or a trailer park.
Which … is fitting.
Traffic grinds to a slow crawl, then proceeds in stop-and-go fashion for the next fifty miles.
Worst of all is the pavement – which resembles an Afghan airstrip following a sustained bombing barrage. Seriously … from Miami to the Savannah River, Interstate 95 is smooth sailing, but the moment you see that “Welcome to South Carolina” sign everything falls apart.
Including the alignment of your vehicle … and your spine.
It is, quite simply, an embarrassment. Not unlike the tax-and-spend politicians responsible for it. A literal “corridor of shame.”
Now the “leaders” who have presided over the perpetual failure of this road (and its surrounding low-income fiefdoms) want to charge motorists for the “privilege” of traversing this third world thoroughfare – which sits as an uneven, dangerous monument to politically motivated infrastructure prioritization.
Wait a minute … didn’t South Carolina “Republicans” just impose a massive new gasoline tax hike with the promise of “fixing our roads?” Yes, they did. But once again, they aren’t.
Sadly, this would be more of the failed “Mo Money, Mo Problems” approach to governing – a.k.a. the only approach Palmetto State leaders seem to understand.
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Boy, if you like I-95, you will love I-85 in the Upstate with never-ending construction. I guess the the legislators with clout get richer over Jasper County. Here is to Hugh Leatherman, Henry McMaster and their cronies. Got to profit from that increased gasoline tax you know.
“Try I 95 through VA, MD, NJ, NY and Ct and get back to me.”
I wouldn’t wish that on that on anybody!
But I drove down to Florida late last spring and South Carolina was fine. Coming back though Georgia the entire state, had no Northbound rest stops opened. None. I don’t know what was going on but I had to pull off on the shoulder a couple of times
Yeah. I have no idea of the situation, but this article except was mainly rhetoric.
Indiana has been under total GOP control for a while. Highways? An absolute mess border to border all directions. Think they find what they believe to be more pressing matters for use of road repair funds.
Been there, done that. I-95 in western Connecticut on a summer Saturday is a friggin’ parkiung lot.
Pinging the usual suspects to the article, also.
You haven’t had the pleasure of driving on any interstate highway in New York or Pennsylvania, have you?
It’s a trip to hell.
“Pedro’s weather report. Chili today, hot tamale” I first saw that sign probably in 1968 maybe a few years later I can’t really remember but for some strange reason that has been stuck in my head for decades. Oh... the power of marketing.
We stopped and my dad bought M-80s of all things... him and my uncle loved blowing stumps. WWII and all if that...
I’ve said many times you can judge the amount of corruption exists in any state by the condition of their highways.
Part of the problem is that some state governments sit around waiting for the feds to pony up the money to fix their roads. Some provide other solutions from gasoline taxes to “mileage” taxes to get the work completed.
Another problem is that highway construction makes traffic worse before it makes it better.
Actually, I have. There is a climbing lane on I-88 north of Binghamton that was basically one giant friggin’ washboard when I drove the route back in 2015.
New York’s roads can suck. I’ve been to that state a number of times.
With the Obama trillion dollar "shovel ready" job scam national politicians realized the people who pay the bills (aka us) would eat miles of crap and accept not having the basic sanitation and maintenance of infrastructure without ever putting mobs in the streets and otherwise raising Hell in any way that impacts DC just like the citizens of California have never cleaned up Sacramento.
Articles like this one are fine blowoff valves that let people ineffectually rant a bit then move on which suits the Powers That Shouldn't Be just fine.
The result is that we have shit in the streets of cities and crumbling infrastructure because we sit still for it.
We pay a heck of a lot more in taxes and tolls than people in S. Carolina.
Last I knew, Georgia was getting twice the federal aid that SC gets.
The entire length of the I-95 covers a distance of aprox. 1,927 miles.
I-95 covers a distance of approx. 382 miles in length across the state of Florida.
Georgia has fewer miles to maintain, 112 vs. South Carolina at 207.
NC has 182 and VA 179. MD 110 and Delaware 23 (Nope, it’s not the shortest.)
PA has 51, NJ has 78 and NY has 23.5 (forget going the speed limit here)
Connecticut runs 112 miles, RI 43, Massachusetts 92 and, New Hampshire is only 16. (You don’t even have to stop to pee!)
Welcome to Maine! Only 303 miles to Canada.
To mill and resurface a 4-lane road, it costs an average of $1.25 million per mile in 2016.
Flying the F15E from Seymour Johnson AFB, the sombrero was a great radar target where we could mark it for practice attacks during night sorties.
After a while South of the Border became such a trashy mess that it was no longer a viable well defined target.
Why? The 20th century icon of freedom in America is the automobile: the ability to just head out on the road whenever you wanted. For me, there are few things better in life than a road trip.
I love driving to Tucumcari NM, Hatch UT, Mexican Hat UT, to name just a few. If there's a Gonzaga U. basketball game within a day's drive from Dallas, I'm usually there, too.
Allow me to give kudos to the company that did the construction on I-10 from Van Horn to El Paso, TX. After ten years, the road is still in great shape, despite a huge amount of 18 wheeler traffic on I-10.
I haven't done any research on the topic, but there's at least one member of the Quad Squad, Ayanna Pressley, who has NEVER driven an automobile, or attempted to obtain a drivers license. I wonder how many other legislators have never experienced the freedom of driving a car?
My youngest son just got his license about six weeks ago. He cherishes the freedom he now has to drive himself to school, and visit with friends after school. He's done really well with taking on the responsibility to be a good driver, and the added requirements we've placed on him for the privilege of driving our cars.
The excitement built with every passing roadsign.
“We have to stop there,” I told the kids. “Everyone says you shouldn’t miss it.”
And then, finally, we arrived at South of the Border.
A momentary silence filled the car, until one of my kids said, “This is it?”
(True story.)
Nashville metro has been colonized by
Mexico Honduras and Guatemala
Kurdistan
Michigan big time
California
West Africa to a degree
Somalia
And LA and San Frans streets are what?
Come to Connecticut and test your suspension. We have tolls.
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