Rt 99 Thru Bakersfield
for those of you who may not see Chuck Woodbury’s RV TRAVEL newsletter i pulled this from the latest issue and thought it important enough to post here. —————————————- Trip update (Friday evening...
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wilber1 wrote:bob213 wrote:
Seems like every trip we take requires us to go east. 99 to 58 is the best route we have found and we haven't experienced that bad of road doing so. Other than the 3 year plus construction project at the transition of 58 from 99 I think it's pretty good road.
Three years? They have been working on it for at least the last five. It’s like the I5 through Tacoma, a permanent construction zone.
Unbelievably maybe, the SB puyallup River bridge widening going on now is actually the last major project from S Tacoma to Fife!
I build almost exclusively WSDOT work and IMO that area was one of the bigger WSDOT cluster farks. I've bid some of and understand some of the "issues" on that corridor and it was some real mismanagement by WSDOT and Also a great challenge to cram that many lanes, bridges and interchanges through there.
Heck we moved to WA in 2011 and Nalley Valley had already been under const for a while and it will now be done in 2 years....
