Road trip observations

[liberal N proud]

I have been on the road for several days, much of the trip through red states. Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri.

Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee had all their rest area closed except for the tourist information centers.

Saving $$$ would be my guess. These fuckers are running g this country to the ground.

[RKP5637]

1. It's going down, all signs. I saw the same starting a few years back in some states. Soon the

roads will just fall apart.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. So how does Texas get so much money for roads? It's almost insane. Houston building another

frickin loop - millions of cars - carbon dioxide emissions - no hope/thrust toward solving the problem with some kind of mass transit. It is criminal, in my mind. Everywhere I go here in TX - they are working on roads

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, someone's getting paid off, big money, sort of same as in wars. Someone is always

collecting big bucks!

[bluecollar2]

8. probably toll roads...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. maybe some but most NO...I-35, I-84

[hatrack]

3. They were doing this in Kansas a year or two ago . . . .

As if cutting maintenance on a rest area or a roadside park is going to save more than a few thousand dollars a year, particularly on the secondary (federal) highways - US 50, US 40, US 36.

But yeah, they went ahead and did it. Pathetic.

[Sissyk]

5. That's strange, in Tennessee, that is.

Site shows them all open except for a handful due to various reasons. I was at one today, myself. On I40 in Smith County.

It was open, clean, and helpful.

Sorry you had a bad trip through my state.

https://www.tn.gov/tdot/topic/maintenance-restareas

[liberal N proud]

9. I was on I24

[ProudLib72]

6. No, that is a clear sign to just keep going

Get the hell out of that red state ASAP!

[Mopar151]

7. Short-sighted bean counters!

Cut maintainence and repairs first. Once the infrastructure currently in use is barely functioning, long term investment is cut, except for the wildly extravagant.