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Abrignac Offline
#1 Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2023, 6:43 PM EST
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Your right to talk smack about Louisiana’s roads are herby revoked. Yesterday my teeth hurt for 6 hours after enduring the first 80 miles of westbound I-10 from the LA - Texas state line.

At the moment I’m headed north on TX 81 between I-10 and Kermit. If wasn’t wearing a seatbelt I would have broken my neck from slamming my head into ceiling of my cab not to mention the intense chest workout I’m getting trying to keep it between the lines.
tonygraz Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2023, 6:52 PM EST
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Louisiana has roads ?
Abrignac Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2023, 6:54 PM EST
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Yea we do.

And if I had teets I’d have two black eyes by now.
frankj1 Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2023, 7:20 PM EST
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but your milkshakes bring the boys to your yard
ZRX1200 Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2023, 10:54 PM EST
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Abrinac doesn’t do dairy. He told me so after I brought him coffee with dairy in it….
frankj1 Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2023, 11:44 PM EST
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he's good wif cat milk, but it hasta be fresh
Sunoverbeach Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2023, 11:50 PM EST
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Straight from the teet?
Gene363 Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Jan 12 2023, 10:24 AM EST
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IMO, the roads in Louisiana are not that bad, however they just haven't perfected matching the road level to the bridge levels, especially on I-10.

General comment about current road building contractors, they don't care about quality, they are not compacting soils to build a proper roadbed and their don't care if the concrete they pour is finished level or not.

Locally, a bridge on I-20 is being replaced and expanded from two to three lanes. The road surface is concrete and it's not even close to smooth, it sucks. Even worse, the surface of a new exit ramp is more like a rumble strip.

IMO,

The government contracts are more focused on diversity than the actual technical requirements for the job.

The contract administrators and inspectors responsible for enforcing the contract are inexperienced, unknowledgeable, too weak to do the job, and if they are good at their job, the contracts is so bad it's unenforceable.
MACS Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Jan 12 2023, 11:14 AM EST
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DrMaddVibe Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Jan 12 2023, 12:11 PM EST
Joined: 10-21-2000
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Gene363 wrote:
IMO, the roads in Louisiana are not that bad, however they just haven't perfected matching the road level to the bridge levels, especially on I-10.

General comment about current road building contractors, they don't care about quality, they are not compacting soils to build a proper roadbed and their don't care if the concrete they pour is finished level or not.

Locally, a bridge on I-20 is being replaced and expanded from two to three lanes. The road surface is concrete and it's not even close to smooth, it sucks. Even worse, the surface of a new exit ramp is more like a rumble strip.

IMO,

The government contracts are more focused on diversity than the actual technical requirements for the job.

The contract administrators and inspectors responsible for enforcing the contract are inexperienced, unknowledgeable, too weak to do the job, and if they are good at their job, the contracts is so bad it's unenforceable.



I imagine they use good pronoun choices though.
Whistlebritches Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Jan 12 2023, 9:22 PM EST
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BULLPUCKEY.........once you clear Houston I-10 is smooth as a babies butt to El Paso.I'd check for flats Anth
Abrignac Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Jan 12 2023, 11:06 PM EST
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Whistlebritches wrote:
BULLPUCKEY.........once you clear Houston I-10 is smooth as a babies butt to El Paso.I'd check for flats Anth


True but getting from the state line to Houston is a 2 hour roller coaster ride.
HockeyDad Offline
#13 Posted: Fri, Jan 13 2023, 8:38 AM EST
Joined: 09-20-2000
Posts: 46,192
Abrignac wrote:
True but getting from the state line to Houston is a 2 hour roller coaster ride.


The Katricians ruined that section of road.

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