LOL.
I take that hell to work at HHI from time to time.
It’s a rough road.
Tennessee is behind the curve as well. I-24, I-65 north of Nashvegas, and I-75 all need to be 6 lanes where they are 4 now. Chattanooga is just complete poo, with I-24 and I-75 often backed up for miles.
IIRC, about 75% of SC’s budget is spoken for: education, Medicaid, public sector salaries, pension, and bennies...
Road repair? Don’t hold yer breath.
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.
We had to drive it during our vacation a month ago, from Boston down to VA. Check that, I had to drive it. Had a tire blow out after hitting a pothole in Providence...as if my wife needed proof why I hate driving at night anymore.
Trump needs a "shovel ready" project? Rebuild I-95 and I-35 for starters. There's enough work there for thousands of construction workers in at least ten states. Might add at least a full point to GDP for a couple of years.
I have fond memories of driving on the autobahn in Germany, loved driving on great roads in excess of 100 MPH. Driving in the States is another story.
If they sold off the highway to a private company and let them toll it at whatever rates they choose, I can promise you that the traffic jams would end and the road wouldn’t even need to be widened!
...but I can’t promise you that you’ll be happy with that outcome, unless you’re rich.
Last week 17 cars were damaged by a pot hole on I-40 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Damage to most vehicles was so bad they had to be towed away.
SC sounds just about the same as Oklahoma. I don’t know how they set their priorities. I do know the roads in this country are mostly falling apart on every level. Talk and raise taxes are all I see getting done.
Like SC, when you cross the state line into Oklahoma it is like entering one long speed bump. The sign at the state line says “Discover the excellence.” When we see that we say, “Good luck.” Pathetic.
The only slight consolation is to know we are not alone here. I can say the very same thing for roads in Illinois and Indiana from my trip there last spring.
It is amazing how well Missouri does with all their roads including county roads. Even Arkansas does a reasonable job with their roads. Texas is like entering a new world. When you cross the Red River everything is better. Don’t states ever look around and benchmark their performance against best in class and then do something about their own pitiful performance?
And to think, SC is very slowly turning Purple, as more and more northern Democrats move down to the coast and the hipsters move to Greeneville.
Truckers, particularly flatbedders, loath SC I-95. If a load is going to be lost on a highway, it will be there. KY I-75 is also high on the list.
I too get mad when my government fixes someone elses problem before they fix mine.
Hey Pedro ! South of the Border ! 24 miles !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.