I40 in Arizona

Bob/Olallawa wrote:

Lauren wrote:
I have always wondered what with all our geniuses in Washington, DC who have money to send all kinds of places out of our wonderful U S, and the need to create jobs and all - why not create jobs to take care of our roads? And why not let inmates be "asked" to pick up trash (off the subject just a bit) instead of just working out and watching tv or playing with their computers?

This is meant to be bipartisan.

I will bite. In order to have inmates pick trash, you need a van to haul them, boots, coveralls, and gloves to protect them from anything that could be bad, and money to pay for the supervisor, maintenance of vehicles, and wages for supervision. And being government, someone to spend lots of time tracking everything evolved with the operation.

Mississippi does use imates to clean their state parks with no problem

Between the bad road conditions, semi traffic and people driving like idiots I40 is a nightmare. When we head to AZ for the winter we now go south on I25 and catch I10.

georgem2106 wrote:
Between Kingman and Winslow rivals some dirt roads for being bad! There are areas that would shake your dentures out even at slower speeds.

Indeed bad. I drove old route 66 just from Kingman to Seligman last winter. Then I-40 back to Kingman.

Should have stayed on old US 66. It was a much smoother road. Sad to say that a highway, supposedly out of commission for 40 some odd years is better than the nearby Interstate highway.

Lauren wrote:
I have always wondered what with all our geniuses in Washington, DC who have money to send all kinds of places out of our wonderful U S, and the need to create jobs and all - why not create jobs to take care of our roads? And why not let inmates be "asked" to pick up trash (off the subject just a bit) instead of just working out and watching tv or playing with their computers?

This is meant to be bipartisan.

I will bite. In order to have inmates pick trash, you need a van to haul them, boots, coveralls, and gloves to protect them from anything that could be bad, and money to pay for the supervisor, maintenance of vehicles, and wages for supervision. And being government, someone to spend lots of time tracking everything evolved with the operation.

I have always wondered what with all our geniuses in Washington, DC who have money to send all kinds of places out of our wonderful U S, and the need to create jobs and all - why not create jobs to take care of our roads? And why not let inmates be "asked" to pick up trash (off the subject just a bit) instead of just working out and watching tv or playing with their computers?

This is meant to be bipartisan.

If you drive a Jeep it's more fun! :) RV? Not so much.

Yep, some of the worst road in the country. I have to travel on it often and every time I do I send a email to ADOT complaining about it. It doesn't do any good but I feel better ;)
FYI, the most dangerous spots on I-40 were about 5 miles east of the Colorado river were just repaired. It only took 5-6 years and a few crashes to get the repair done.