Posted on 04/07/2017 4:32:57 AM PDT by VastRWCon
WASHINGTON — For more than half a century, old-fashioned, no-frills highway rest stops have welcomed motorists looking for a break from the road, a bathroom or a picnic table where they can eat lunch.
But in some states, these roadside areas are disappearing.
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Hundreds of thousands is the average state budget is a drop in the bucket. An unnoticeable expense. The real reason is that the service plazas are cash cows, and the operators don’t want drivers to have other options. Safety and convenience be damned.
Pick a spot and level it off for parking and put a row of Port-a-Potties that would be exchanged a few times a week.
For the very essentials, states should NOT build rest rooms at state-offered roadside stops, but have a contract with a port-a-potty outfit and use a little manpower to check up on how well they are doing, at least twice a day. Then just picnic tables and water fountains - no vending machines (more garbage) and no shelter other than the trees. Low maintenance, cheapest cost, people still get a needed restroom break. The essentials.
Correction to my previous post... the correct locale is a bit more south, at mile marker 191, the junction of I-75 and River Road.
Thank you maggots.
faggets are also the reason why in San Francisco you cant have a completely asexual, friendly conversation with people in a gym:
“This must be stealthy, recon faggotry..”
In every place it is because of queers.
We can have nice things, or we can support the homosexual agenda, but we can’t do both.
It was in SF that I learned to never talk to other men in the elevator or bathroom.
Too often homos think it’s a prelude to butt piracy and poop flinging.
They truly have coarsened our culture and society.
Yup. 25 years ago when I was living in Ohio and Michigan stops on less-traveled US highways became hook-up locations for gay men. Even in pre-internet days they had maps which were distributed as far away as Chicago.
The state would eventually give-up trying to patrol them and just close them down.
“In Maine it is because of queers!”
You just described all of them. Just say “no” and they go away.
It points out that perversity is pervasive in our society.
My family always stopped at Howard Johnson family-style restaurants when we drove to Florida. The 24/7 places where you could get a dinner plate, pie and ice cream and the inside restrooms were clean and safe to take the kids to.
I travelled by myself for years. I always found the trucks. At a rest stop or a truck plaza. If I needed rest I’d find the trucks and park right in the middle of them. Being alone anywhere else was always spooky to me.
At a few rest stops I had truckers watching out for me when I’d go to the restroom. They were always so nice.
I hear that. I was traveling by myself across county from San Diego to MD. Stopped somewhere in Texas at a rest stop to sleep for a few hours. Some guy kept staring at me so I started up the car and took off. He followed me all the way to the next rest area so I kept going. He finally got off at an exit. Strange.
Florida’s state-owned and run Turnpike is expanding and upgrading its rest stops into large staffed service plazas that have gas, food, beverages, restrooms, convenience stores, a generous indoor seating area, and secure parking on a 24 hour basis. Even if a change in federal law is needed, similar improvements would make today’s bare Interstate rest stops attractive and viable for years to come.
The restrooms are not safe, especially after dark. Too much alternative lifestyle going on in there.
The rest stops in Bell County are beautiful. And very well maintained. I stop there often.
I avoid Interstate rest stops like the plague.
The State closed a rest stop at I-4 and State Road 579 because of night activity of the limp wrist persuation back in the 90s.
Lots of them have been closed. The states claim it is because of crime, when the real UNMENTIONABLE reason is they have become so queer infested at night you don’t dare stop.
***I can’t imagine a woman traveling alone and not exercising extreme situational awareness.***
I noticed years ago that when a woman has to pee or is hungry, situational awareness goes out the window.
On I-40, middle of the night, going to Nashville, my mom and wife decided they needed to go to the restroom. I was looking for a well lit safe place when they DEMANDED I stop at the next place, an off the interstate convenience store.
I drove in, swung around and did not like what I saw. They DEMANDED I STOP, so I did.
They got out and I grabbed my two high capacity pistols just in case. Half way to the door, they suddenly realized what they were walking into and came back real fast. They suddenly realized they could “hold it” a while longer.
What I saw I did not like was this. A large number of cars with two or more blacks in each one of them parked all around facing inward. No interaction, no talking. Just setting and looking as if waiting for something to happen.
I still today think they were waiting for a drug pickup as this was a rural area.
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