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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 11:41 am
(October 27, 2015 at 11:10 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Waiting to hear what the damage to my car is this time.
You'd think, what with every fucking road in the Denver metro area being a construction zone 9 months out of every year, they could at least manage to fill the potholes big enough to blow your tire at 45mph!
My tax dollars hardly working!
As much as I love living in Colorado, I'm beginning to hate living in Denver almost as much.
Sorry to hear that - Portland has some pretty bad potholes (in downtown no less!) but I noticed that the bad ones have been filled in.
The new shenanigans recently have been to re-stripe a major Southbound road in downtown (11th street, a one-way going south) so that the right hand lanes are all "right turn only" so when you've come over the Hawthorne bridge and are trying to get four blocks south to Clay St to get on the freeway everyone has to line up in a single lane and traffic gets even more fucked up than it already was - because they ALSO put the street car down this street! WTF, Portland?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 12:21 pm
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One of the perks about living in TN is that the roads are fucking phenomenal. I mean driving south into Alabama on I-65 is almost comical. The state line is an actual bump in the road, and the road noise triples, because the interstate turns to near gravel.
And as far as construction goes, relatively quick about it. They just started a corridor on I-65 south of Nashville a year ago, and they are almost finished.
Compare that to I-4 in Orlando, which started construction on the downtown area when I graduated high school and still isn't finished.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 12:36 pm
They're doing major construction on the road I live off (they're replacing sewer piping, building a new intersection, widening by one lane (creating a center turning lane) and repaving) and it's totally screwing up traffic around my part of town and will probably continue for another year. Not to mention they're also completely rebuilding another road that's used as a cut-thru road, and is the most convenient way for me to get to the movie theater, the local powells branch and most decent lunch places.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 12:47 pm
(October 27, 2015 at 11:41 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Sorry to hear that - Portland has some pretty bad potholes (in downtown no less!) but I noticed that the bad ones have been filled in.
LOL, we have entire streets on the east side that have gone unmaintained for so many years that you'd think they were gravel roads, but they were - at one time - paved. Come to think of it, I can think of a few that at least used to be that way on the west side as well.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 12:54 pm
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 1:12 pm
(October 27, 2015 at 11:41 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (October 27, 2015 at 11:10 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Waiting to hear what the damage to my car is this time.
You'd think, what with every fucking road in the Denver metro area being a construction zone 9 months out of every year, they could at least manage to fill the potholes big enough to blow your tire at 45mph!
My tax dollars hardly working!
As much as I love living in Colorado, I'm beginning to hate living in Denver almost as much.
Sorry to hear that - Portland has some pretty bad potholes (in downtown no less!) but I noticed that the bad ones have been filled in.
The new shenanigans recently have been to re-stripe a major Southbound road in downtown (11th street, a one-way going south) so that the right hand lanes are all "right turn only" so when you've come over the Hawthorne bridge and are trying to get four blocks south to Clay St to get on the freeway everyone has to line up in a single lane and traffic gets even more fucked up than it already was - because they ALSO put the street car down this street! WTF, Portland?
/traffic rant
Portland does have it's share of crappy roads, but by and large, Oregon's freeways are pretty decent. I-25 in Denver, not so much. It's ridiculous to have a pothole big enough to pop a tire in between lanes on the freeway! $500.00 (give or take a few) for new tires and an alignment because the assholes at CDOT can't manage to fill a pothole.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 2:22 pm
CM-whereabouts are you. I'm close in between Stark and Belmont. My neighborhood is pretty much being rebuilt. They are building that monstrosity where the Belmont goats used to be. Is that the one way they are screwing up? Also, the new max line have something to do with it?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 2:44 pm
(October 27, 2015 at 2:22 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: CM-whereabouts are you. I'm close in between Stark and Belmont. My neighborhood is pretty much being rebuilt. They are building that monstrosity where the Belmont goats used to be. Is that the one way they are screwing up? Also, the new max line have something to do with it?
I'm out in the westside 'burbs.
The biggest headache I have with the MAX is that they hooked it up to the heavy rail lines and run it across the worst intersection in all of Beaverton to run a commuter rail through: Farmington and Lombard. The rail lines cut diagonally across the intersection. At least they fixed the awful timing of the light so Farmington turns green after the train passes through and at least aleviates the major traffic jams trains would cause - I'm talking gridlock.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 3:21 pm
Ah ok. Yeah, I know that area pretty well. Back in the late 80's I lived on Farmington in a apartment in the top of a building with stores below. It is still there. It was before MaX. I *think* it was Hall? But I'm not sure. Its on the corner of Farmington and one way street.
I agree in driving around that area that the max is terrible there.
I always said when delivering that Beaverton is my nemesis.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 27, 2015 at 3:47 pm
(October 27, 2015 at 3:21 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: Ah ok. Yeah, I know that area pretty well. Back in the late 80's I lived on Farmington in a apartment in the top of a building with stores below. It is still there. It was before MaX. I *think* it was Hall? But I'm not sure. Its on the corner of Farmington and one way street.
I agree in driving around that area that the max is terrible there.
I always said when delivering that Beaverton is my nemesis.
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