Thursday, June 30, 2011

Utah Road Construction - More Like Road Destruction

So my drive to work is about 4 miles long. About 3 of those 4 miles are back roads that no one really travels on and the other mile is a semi-busy main road. How is it that I drive through 3 sets of construction on my way to work?
The first set of construction I get to they even closed the road. Who knows what they are doing there, each time I drive past they are just sitting on this little barricade they have set up eating a sandwich. Best part is they actually resurfaced some of that road about a week ago. They did a horrible job, but why re-surface it then come back only to dig it up again? They take you on a little detour that takes you a block further down but each time I see them at their little barricade looking like the Germans are invading I feel like just driving right on through like some dopy old man that can't see over the steering wheel. Watch them try and eat their sandwiches then.

The second lot of construction I pass is for a new road. This new road will be awesome! If they ever finish the damn thing. How long does it take to slap a bit of crap down and call it a road? That's all they seem to do so how long should it take?

The one that really takes the biscuit is the final set of roadworks. No one knows what the hell they are doing at this set. They are not re-surfacing the road, they are not building a new road, all I can see is that they built a tunnel under the tracks next to the road, and they completed that months ago. I don't even know how long they have been working on this (mainly because I am asleep while driving to work) but it's probably easily a year. This morning they had this big roof there ready for something. A roof! What are the going to do with a roof?!

With all this construction going on you would actually think the roads would be half decent. Wrong. They are crap. I have to take the long way to work because the quickest way is full of pot holes. I used that road just over a year ago and blew a tire out by hitting a bucket hole, and last time I went down it like a month ago it was even worse.

Proper ticks me off.

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