South Carolina Ping 
If you'd like to be on or off the South Carolina ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at fitsnews.com ...
I loathe I95 when going round trip to Raleigh that I have to do every so often.
I’ve sat up to three hours in one spot. A couple of tractor trailer trucks wrecked and burned.
South Carolina Ping
If you'd like to be on or off the South Carolina ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
The last CT tolls were removed in ‘88
Although that freak Lamont keeps trying to bring them back
Nonsense. I live off of exit 8 and drive I 95 north and south. It’s not that bad.
Try I 95 through VA, MD, NJ, NY and Ct and get back to me.
Agree. I drive through central PA rather than take 95 south through NY/NJ/PA/DE/MD. That stretch is just brutal. SC is a breeze compared to that.
Enter Illinois from St. Louis to East St. Louis, Dubuque to East Dubuque, or anywhere from from Wisconsin and it’s night and day. The roads and atmosphere change at the state line.
Enter Illinois from St. Louis to East St. Louis, Dubuque to East Dubuque, or anywhere from from Wisconsin and it’s night and day. The roads and atmosphere change at the state line.
Interstates are identified as Odd Numbers North/South, even Numbers East/West.
The absolute worst! People shouldn’t have their cars destroyed when they travel.
Not me! I'd seen National Lampoon's Vacation, where the Griswolds stopped in East St. Louis. I told my son and grandson why we didn't stop: it was very possible that one or more bad guys were hiding in the back seat, just waiting for someone to stop.
From what I observed, no other cars stopped, either.
In a way, I felt bad for the woman, if she was truly in distress. Given the reputation of that area for lawlessness, it was an easy choice. Plus, in our modern times and the availability of cell phones, help was merely a phone call away.
Good grief - Guess I’ll never work/live there again.
Sounds like I-88 East into Chicago - back in the 1970s!
Let’s welcome one million immigrants into our country annually.along with the unknown number of illegal immigrants without adding any new infrastructure. What can possibly go wrong?
Ummm, on a single trip through New York I broke a leaf spring and the spare tire mount on a brand new trailer.
Whoever the arrogant writer is needs to check it out.
Does that include the last few decades of Furman graduates?
Furman has been completely transformed by former president David Shi and his successors.
Furman now offers just three majors: Sustainability, Diversity, and Community Outreach.
Oh, forgot to mention they have spent the last three years apologizing for slavery and segregation.
No doubt alumni will soon be asked to pay reparations.
South Carolina has the money to fix the roads, the gangsters in the government just prefer to spend it on their own “needs”.
SOB opened in 1950, the year I began first grade. I have lived my entire life except for military service of three years within an hour or two of it and never knew it was there until I was twenty some years old. I never actually saw it until I was twenty six and my first impression was to ask if this was somebody’s idea of an expensive joke. I don’t think I have ever spent a nickle there. It has to be the most overadvertised business in the world.
Dude
Agreed....I’ve traveled from HHI to JAX several times recently....never noticed much of a difference.
Trucker Mag has TN at #1.
I hit a pothole I thought was going to destroy my L front wheel.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.