… unless, of course, you’re like me and you already avoid it because it’s one of Dante’s forgotten circles of hell. In fact, there is a Foursquare check-in around 635 and Midway called Hell. But now you’ll really want to avoid it because they’re going to start that fancy-schmancy new construction project that will take 5 years (read: 10, because this is construction and Texas and well, you know), and it’s going to involve lane closures and stuff.
But listen, it’s supposed to make our lives better. In five years. So there’s that.
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Do NOT cut through our neighborhood, we’ve got dips on Hughes that will take out the undercarriage of most cars. And the asphalt scars to prove it.
When my sister and I purchased, Guns n Roses Appetite for Destruction, back in the day, our mom took a look on the back of the album cover and made the comment that they’d all be dead in 5 yrs and look how that prediction turned out.
Bethany, thanks for the grin. Sadly truthful, but funny nonetheless.
Hey, they got central and the high completed early, right?
Maybe I’m remembering wrong and maybe it was an anomaly, but didn’t the High 5 project finish something like 13 months early?
By the way, lots of really good information is here: http://www.dot.state.tx.us/business/partnerships/i_635.htm
(Oh, and snark that only grabs for the low hanging fruit? Construction delay jokes? Might as well be farting in front of a room of 13-year-old boys. C’mon…You’re better than that.)
re: The High-5 and I-635…. I think in both cases, the contractors got (will get) early completion bonuses… hence, the projects were (will be) finished early.
I was talking to a friend of mine about his company’s working on this. It’s insanity.
Think about it. You have to get your crews and equipment to their location while a kazillion Dallas idiots drive over, under, around, and through your operation. Two hours minimum.
Then you have to work up to forty feet deep in trenches. That requires massive equipment and expertise and you have an absolute minimum of right of way to work in.
Then you’re looking at shutting down at the end of the day, again, idiots by the carload pissed at the world doing everything they can to be as ignorant as possible harassing the bejezzus out of your people.
You end up getting two to three hours a day of real productivity. At least a half of million dollars worth of equipment and manpower to move along at a pace of a hundred feet a day maximum.
He’s excited as heck about his company getting the job. Yeah, I agree, he’s nutzo.
Yeah, Bethany. Construction delay jokes are such low-hanging fruit, it’s like calling Richie Whitt a douche revolver. It’s like calling Richie Whitt a douche carousel. It’s like calling Richie Whitt a one-two-three douche box.