Travel thoughts 2021
We just returned from a 6900 mile trip from North Idaho to central Florida, via the Southern route going and a central U S return. A few comments about what we saw. The interstate highway system is ...
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It's easy to pick out the bad in any situation. And there's plenty of it. Truckstop gift shop quality not being one to make the list though, lol.
Infrastructure? Yup it's generally a mess, as are the agencies that administer the budgets, construction/repair and maintenance of it.
For context, I manage work for a heavy highway/infrastructure contractor and have for 25 years now. And the budgetary insufficiencies, admin and operating inefficiencies have gotten progressively worse throughout the years.
And as a tiny, yet abhorrently ridiculous example in our state, the state highway department is still working under Covid rules that they voluntarily put in place for themselves and their contractors over a year ago that have subsequently been lifted statewide by even our moron governor for some time now.
Why? Because they couldn't sit at home and would actually have to get dressed and go back to work at their offices where they would be mildly accountable, at least, for their level of effort expended to get a paycheck.
Not enough bandwidth to get into the real issues.....
Infrastructure? Yup it's generally a mess, as are the agencies that administer the budgets, construction/repair and maintenance of it.
For context, I manage work for a heavy highway/infrastructure contractor and have for 25 years now. And the budgetary insufficiencies, admin and operating inefficiencies have gotten progressively worse throughout the years.
And as a tiny, yet abhorrently ridiculous example in our state, the state highway department is still working under Covid rules that they voluntarily put in place for themselves and their contractors over a year ago that have subsequently been lifted statewide by even our moron governor for some time now.
Why? Because they couldn't sit at home and would actually have to get dressed and go back to work at their offices where they would be mildly accountable, at least, for their level of effort expended to get a paycheck.
Not enough bandwidth to get into the real issues.....
