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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Maybe that is why their gas price is SO low.
Apparently, Florida has VERY different rules for interstate driving that the rest of the country -- 45 mph in the lefthand lane? No problem. I'm driving 65 mph in the center lane and you want to pass on the left? Oh well, by all means, let me speed up so you can't pass. Here, I'm going to speed up to pass you, then pull in front of you and slow back down to the speed I want to go, which is slower that YOU want to go.
The wailing from the NEA was deafening.
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One more reason the NEA should be recognized as one of the most destructive organizations in America. Not only is it ruining the minds of our children, it’s now in the business of ruining our interstate highways!
Of course, you all have to move into the big cities for that to work. And get rid of your white-privilege cars.
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Soon to be mandated by the Democrats’ adoption of UN Agenda 21.
Risk Management will pay it.
90 % of the funding is Federal for road improvements on the Interstates.
Try I-85 between Charlotte and Statesboro sometime. They’ve been working on that same stretch of interstate for 20 years, and I swear to God, they haven’t done a single thing to it except leave potholes and close lanes.
It must’ve been much nicer, much more fun back then, though.
I’d heard about the place from my folks and others their age, who took bus trips down south and stopped at S.O.B. to shop. They all raved about it.
So, a couple of years ago, when my kids and I passed all those signs, I was expecting something quite different. Instead, it was empty and run down.
At one point, though, I was driving around a section of motel rooms. An older man smiled at me, pointed at the door of his room, and said, “I would never stay anywhere else.”
So, it seems S.O.B. is very nostalgic for many people. Every city or state has a place like that, that some people see as special, just because of the memories there.
It definitely is over-hyped - lol - but those billboards are fun. SOB is like a piece of Americana. We’re glad we stopped there, even if all we did was park and walk around and visit the restrooms and play some old arcade games.
What’s more amazing? That the schools do this and indoctrinate or the parents of the students, most of whom are paying the bills, continue to let their kids go to school there?
Yep. Sometimes there is congestion from Exit 5 to the GA line, but it is a slow roll until GAs three lanes reduced congestion. Pretty normal. Of course an accident will slow I95 anywhere.
Also SC roadways are clean and well kept. The trees have been recently removed from the medium which are being taken over by grass and weeds until the landscaping phase. Maybe that’s what the writer was complaining about.
I think writer just doesn’t like deep red states.
Re: Georgia was getting twice the federal aid that SC gets.
My cousin is actually a DOT engineer in Atlanta. I’ll have to inquire about that. Apparently, the Georgia DOT is a pretty good job - he went there straight from college and never left.
By the way, population may be a funding factor:
Georgia - 10.5 million
South Carolina - 5.1 million
From a strict financial point of view, it makes no sense to send your children to an “average” private university.
They can get exactly the same political indoctrination, and exactly the same diploma-value, at their local state university - for one third the cost.
My father reveled in his cheapskatedness. We bought generic everything. Never Oreos...hydrox were even too expensive. We got store brands. (Dad says he was a child of the depression…but his father did well for himself. So these were his own demons )
A fancy-dan place ( to him) like SOB meant expensive to him.
... and Virginia #2 WORST!
Yes, I am aware of this. I’m not certain what your point is...
I was hoping you would chime in on this thread. :-)
Try I 95 through VA, MD, NJ, NY and Ct and get back to me.
Amen to that! I-95 in the northeast an absolute horror.
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