Traveled from North TX area to South LA; holy batman the roads

It all went into building the Loop.

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It's the homeland but I will never move back.

St Mary parish tyfys

We've had two separate 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bills in the last 15 years so this is actually just a figment of your imagination.

I just drove from the Woodlands to Covington and I-45 and I-10 in Texas are dog shite. Concrete interstates suck arse.

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Don't you dare talk shite about Future for the last 40 years I-49.

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I drove US 90 between Houma and Laffy twice this month.

New Iberia is going to be one big clusterphoque if we get a storm. I saw construction crews were doing a complete pavement replacement on one large section and the road was down to one lane on each direction on one side. It is much needed and more sections need to be redone like this. Those must the the original panels that were laid in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

The funniest part of one section of US 90 near Franklin that needs to be redone was where a truck must have had the brakes lockup and scoured the concrete for about 400-500 feet. I looked at Google street view and thought that must have been done in the last 5 years, but nope. The earliest Google Street View from 2008 had those same marks. It is a shame that DOTD has only been able to put asphalt patches on that make it worse on a concrete road.

Street View 2022


Streetview 2008

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from Lafayette to Houma are awful. The tire and alignment guys must make bank. I thought I was on a test track at a tire manufacture.

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Did the same route DFW to Houma via 90 and...

1) Glad to see they are actually upgrading 90
2) That highway is still F tier between New Iberia and Franklin holy shite.

Oh btw 3132 in Shreveport can catch that smoke too, how in the hell a major city allows roads to deteriorate to the conditions they are currently in is beside me.

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One of our construction crews caused that damage the day it was poured We had a crew working out of Intracoastal City. The new Hw

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What year was that?

Did it happen in the original construction? If so, this has to be one of the longest DOTD construction screw ups second only to the the Huey P Long lane shift on the old bridge where the Main structure over the river didn’t line up with the approach on the east bank side. Luckily, that was fixed when it was rebuilt a decade ago.

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I remember when a lot of our roads were clamshells or gravel. It wasn’t that long ago.

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I was a kid in the 1980’s and remembered seeing clamshell roads mixed with asphalt. Did those roads hold up better than aggregate? Since they were made with locally sourced materials that were lighter than rock and could be packed denser due to the clamshell shape.