[CedarDave]

Compelling drone footage of traffic problems at the YouTube link:

Traffic in Eddy County

[CedarDave]

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[NativeSon]

Illegal aliens cause a lot of carnage on roads throughout America, perhaps something should be done about that.

[Farmer Dean]

Heavy trucks don’t damage a properly designed road.

[Parmy]

It’s all Trump’s fault. If it weren’t for his programs that create all of this prosperity these problems would be happening. Cheap gas, too much oil, too many jogs, egregious. We have to get rid of him. (sarc)

[crusty old prospector]

Those dirty fracers.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***You cannot believe the kinds of holes that are in it now. It’s those oil trucks***

i was there in the 1959-1962 gas and old boom. Are the roads any worse than they were then?

[txrefugee]

These stats are nothing compared to the carnage on roads in and around Midland and Odessa in the Texas Permian Basin oil patch. Too many trucks, inadequate roads , too few truck drivers going full blast for too many hours...a recipe for disaster.

[Dusty Road]

New Mexico has and has always had some of the worst roads of all the states I’ve traveled. Their DOT seems to see little of the revenue the state collects. They let the roads get in bad shape and then try and blame it on the traffic when in fact it’s just negligence. They’ve had 40 plus years to repair and rebuild yet the money went else where. I was putting in wells all over that area back in the late 70’s and early 80’s and the roads were bad then compared to Texas roads. South of Jal to nth of Milinsands and as far west as Artesia. The state has ignored these roads for many years.

[LegendHasIt]

Please be patient.

The leftists in Santa Fe are working on destroying the oil and gas industry in NM as fast as they can. It will be a few weeks until the tricks stop rolling.

[Who is John Galt?]

And the state is looking at putting as much as $300 million to $400 million of that money into road projects statewide.

When I lived in southeast NM a few years back, the local impression was that most of the highway money got spent in the northern part of the state (where Albuquerque & Santa Fe are located). That tendency is even more pronounced when Democrats control the state government, because southern NM is more conservative than the northern counties (and we all know how the Dems use government to punish their political opponents)...

[deport]

And the state is looking at putting as much as $300 million
to $400 million of that money into road projects statewide.

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That won’t build many miles of highway....

[crz]

I only counted 10 or 12 trucks in that line. No doubt there had been a train that had gone through.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Traffic lights would help to ease the conjestion instead of stop signs

[Hot Tabasco]

You cannot believe the kinds of holes that are in it now.

Sounds like S.E. Michigan

[Hot Tabasco]

At the 2:00 mark, looks more like poor traffic management rather than volume. High speed, 4 lane highway and the only means to cross it is a stop sign? That’s a recipe for disaster.......

[Dusty Road]

“When (trucks owned by private contractors) are charging oil companies $130 an hour, that’s costing the industry millions of dollars.”

I’m trying to figure out why he threw that comment in there? I’m in the oil and cattle business also and these trucks are just part of the business. I have trucks coming in to haul oil and water several times a week and have them in to haul cattle about once a year, we have to have them or we’re out of business. We’re doing some re-entries into some older shallow wells in the back of the ranch and we have a tone of trucks working that area. Cementing, drilling, fracing, vacuum trucks and sand trucks and trailers. Not sure what his problem is but these are all necessary if your in the business. We’ve got 42 square miles of ranch with production throughout. We own the surface and the minerals and do all the production ourselves.

[trebb]

Try driving 86 from Jamestown to Buffalo some April.....not a lot of super heavies running on it - just poor maintenance.