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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:21:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:28:53 PM EDT
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As a long time resident of PA, the potholes are part of the state's charm, bless your heart. Crossing from Tennessee into Arkansas, the road was so bad I thought I was back in PA. I was instantly homesick.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:31:30 PM EDT
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steeler fans are the dumbest people on Earth. I thought that privilege belong to Cowboy fans. 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:34:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:39:16 PM EDT
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I've never understood the it's PA so let's put stop signs at the end of the on ramp thing. Just where you need to be accelerating, you have to stop. Five years I lived in oilcity pa, and every day I wondered why the hell even have a Dairy Queen in Franklin if they didn't have burgers and were closed half the year. Funny, I remember leaving Pgh as a kid and discovering the DQ had hamburgers, indoor seating and was open year round... 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:42:13 PM EDT
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Been living in PA for 10yrs, never seen one of these stop signs. Don't git out much do ya? 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:44:41 PM EDT
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Because the ramps are often too short to allow the driver to merge into traffic. Most people nowadays are also too stupid to comprehend "yield" signs, which does not mean " cut the guy off in the main flow of traffic". You want to see some really hideous roads, get on Rt70 in Washington PA. The state of that road is criminal. Lots of accidents this winter, probably because of the deep potholes in the right lane. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I've never understood the it's PA so let's put stop signs at the end of the on ramp thing. Just where you need to be accelerating, you have to stop. Five years I lived in oilcity pa, and every day I wondered why the hell even have a Dairy Queen in Franklin if they didn't have burgers and were closed half the year. Because the ramps are often too short to allow the driver to merge into traffic. Most people nowadays are also too stupid to comprehend "yield" signs, which does not mean " cut the guy off in the main flow of traffic". You want to see some really hideous roads, get on Rt70 in Washington PA. The state of that road is criminal. Lots of accidents this winter, probably because of the deep potholes in the right lane. This + there might be more than one on ramp in one place, so where you are entering, there may have been another on ramp 50 yards in front of the one you are using. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:46:06 PM EDT
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You're obviously new here OP lol. http://boringpittsburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fort-pitt-bridge-tunnel-pittsburgh-meme.jpg http://chelsearoeser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tunnel-monster-meme.jpg http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr03/24/19/enhanced-buzz-12231-1390608466-0.jpg How the fuck did you get that bottom picture with no traffic? Usually that stretch of road is mass chaos.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:46:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I gotta be honest - what's so confusing about this? Quote HistoryQuoted: I gotta be honest - what's so confusing about this? |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:47:56 PM EDT
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I gotta be honest - what's so confusing about this? Quote HistoryQuoted:
I gotta be honest - what's so confusing about this? That isn't so bad. But there's a few places in there that have the odd ramp that exits on the left that dips down under an overpass, with exits immediately before and after, and two through lanes going each direction. Renders your GPS effectively useless because at ~50mph you have NO idea which of the roads to take. I've had to take long detours before when I've relied on GPS and didn't memorize the exact route number and direction to follow the signs with a window of only seconds.
"Exit on the left or right? Nah... we'll just have this lane go DOWN under everything else." 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:48:37 PM EDT
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Bingo, nailed it man. Quote HistoryQuoted:
You want to see some really hideous roads, get on Rt70 in Washington PA. The state of that road is criminal. Lots of accidents this winter, probably because of the deep potholes in the right lane. Bingo, nailed it man. Lived in Pgh 28 out of my 40 years. Lived in Michigan for 2 years, michigan roads make Pgh area roads look amazing in comparison. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:50:53 PM EDT
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Lived in Pgh 28 out of my 40 years. Lived in Michigan for 2 years, michigan roads make Pgh area roads look amazing in comparison. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You want to see some really hideous roads, get on Rt70 in Washington PA. The state of that road is criminal. Lots of accidents this winter, probably because of the deep potholes in the right lane. Bingo, nailed it man. Lived in Pgh 28 out of my 40 years. Lived in Michigan for 2 years, michigan roads make Pgh area roads look amazing in comparison. My brother lived near Monroe for many years. After getting off the main road to go back to his housing development (which was really nice, btw) the road looked like Saddam's airstrips after being rendered useless by a bombing campaign. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 2:57:33 PM EDT
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This winter has wreaked havoc on the northern seaboards road systems. Potholes aren't going to be fixed until the threat of freezing is over.
Or course you wouldn't know anything about freezing being in VA
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:02:00 PM EDT
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It might help to understand that the French were here first
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:04:51 PM EDT
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It might help to understand that the French were here first That's the whole fucking problem
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:08:26 PM EDT
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Don't drink the beer it's made from union pee pee
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:19:15 PM EDT
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You don't like potholes or stop signs placed in really silly places? I'll show you!
Hang on..........ok, i'm back. Just took a big dump. Poop water should be hitting VA in a few days. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:22:55 PM EDT
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Don't drink the beer it's made from union pee pee Iron City!!!!!!!!! Oh my gawd! |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:36:53 PM EDT
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I gotta be honest - what's so confusing about this? You just came out of the Ft Pitt tunnel You have 30 sec to get in the correct lane There are beau coup other people around you doing the same thing Mrs. ALG grew up just a mile or so from there Pretty radical the first time I drove it, but then again I had mastered the Schuykill Expressway in Philly I can still hear her grand mom in the back seat " clear on the left! GO GO GO!" Like she was a fighter pilot Just as the above mentions yunz are gonna have some white knuckle as you tense up and assess the situation and go for an opening to the correct lane without colliding with other jag offs from the opposite side switching toward your side.
Bottom photo was taken on a slow day, it's usually way more packed than that lol. Might as well just get out of the car and walk to a hotel for the night if there's an accident on that stretch. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:38:13 PM EDT
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Waiting for someone to defend the abortion called breezewood.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:38:34 PM EDT
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Everything and anything to do with driving is backwards in PA. From roads to vehicle sales. Aside from the shitty condition of the roads, the other thing that annoys me the most are the very short on ramps. All it takes is for one idiot to stop to screw everyone.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 3:42:34 PM EDT
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Driving up into PA from WV makes our roads look nice, and I 79 sucks in wv. 79 sucks so bad in PA they lower the speed limit  I have to disagree with this. Come on down to Morgantown, drive around, and then be thankful Pittsburgh at least has a few roads without craters. WV may have the worst road care I have ever seen in a state. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 6:47:14 PM EDT
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Been living in PA for 10yrs, never seen one of these stop signs. I've only seen stops signs at the ends of ramps in construction zones where there is no merge lane due to the construction. And PA is not the only state to do that, too. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 6:49:20 PM EDT
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How about this gem? http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af159/ICEMAN19047/ar15com/05170117461.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Been living in PA for 10yrs, never seen one of these stop signs. How about this gem? http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af159/ICEMAN19047/ar15com/05170117461.jpg I can show you a similar sign from VA that has I-81 North and I-77 South on it. It happens when highways are run together to share a corridor. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 6:50:29 PM EDT
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If you think Pitt is bad don't drive south on route 7. It looks like the roads have been shelled and there's no money to fix them.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 6:52:32 PM EDT
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You're obviously new here OP lol. http://boringpittsburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fort-pitt-bridge-tunnel-pittsburgh-meme.jpg http://chelsearoeser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tunnel-monster-meme.jpg http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr03/24/19/enhanced-buzz-12231-1390608466-0.jpg Bottom photo isn't as bad as the I-75/I-71 bridge in Cincinnati. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:04:25 PM EDT
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Waiting for someone to defend the abortion called breezewood. It's the PA Turnpike Commission and their turf war with PennDot. Neither will willing to build a straight connection between the interstate and the turnpike when they were being built and there hasn't been and reconciliation in the years since. Same thing up here with the I-476 (PA Turnpike Northeast extension) and I-81, despite political pressure to make the changes when PennDot widens I-81. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:04:34 PM EDT
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PA highways are terribly maintained. Always have been, IMO. MD, for example, might be socialist workers utopia and taxed accordingly, however you can always tell the difference in the quality of the road surface when you pass from PA to MD. NJ, OTOH, manages to be both a socialist workers paradise with shittier road surface than PA. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1. Fix the potholes! I mean I'm surprised all these little cats haven't torn all their wheels off with these holes that lead to China! 2. What the hell is with the stop signs where they should not be? On ramps, middle of the road? WTF? Potholes...get used to it. Last year there were some that never got fixed after winter and are worse this year. Stop signs..get used to those also. PA highways are terribly maintained. Always have been, IMO. MD, for example, might be socialist workers utopia and taxed accordingly, however you can always tell the difference in the quality of the road surface when you pass from PA to MD. NJ, OTOH, manages to be both a socialist workers paradise with shittier road surface than PA. I'm from the pa mountains. My family left when I was 9 but I've been back a few times. It's almost exactly the same as when I left. We visit friends in NC, real mountains. Yet I don't get carsick because there are real roads! I actually never saw a 4 lane road, except for the time we went to Pittsburgh, until we moved. The roads are terrible, and the taxes have always been high. Go figure. The town I grew up in is more or less a ghost town. Maybe they should raise the taxes. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:14:05 PM EDT
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PA highways are terribly maintained. Always have been, IMO. MD, for example, might be socialist workers utopia and taxed accordingly, however you can always tell the difference in the quality of the road surface when you pass from PA to MD. NJ, OTOH, manages to be both a socialist workers paradise with shittier road surface than PA. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1. Fix the potholes! I mean I'm surprised all these little cats haven't torn all their wheels off with these holes that lead to China! 2. What the hell is with the stop signs where they should not be? On ramps, middle of the road? WTF? Potholes...get used to it. Last year there were some that never got fixed after winter and are worse this year. Stop signs..get used to those also. PA highways are terribly maintained. Always have been, IMO. MD, for example, might be socialist workers utopia and taxed accordingly, however you can always tell the difference in the quality of the road surface when you pass from PA to MD. NJ, OTOH, manages to be both a socialist workers paradise with shittier road surface than PA. I was driving down the road on the way home...thought my wheel broke when I hit a pothole. The next day...no bump at all? I realized...a Smart car had fallen into the pothole and plugged it up....
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:17:38 PM EDT
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Yinz are just jealous  holy shiet, i was in some hick town outside of Cranberry Township and our waitress was saying that Yinzers. It's "younce" and we read up the house . Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:23:45 PM EDT
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Yinz are just jealous holy shiet, i was in some hick town outside of Cranberry Township and our waitress was saying that Yinzers. 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:26:55 PM EDT
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steeler fans are the dumbest people on Earth. Wat ded u juss sayyy?! I don't know that team. I am a Stillers fan though. <---born and raised in da Burgh! |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:29:50 PM EDT
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How the fuck did you get that bottom picture with no traffic? Usually that stretch of road is mass chaos.
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You're obviously new here OP lol. http://boringpittsburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fort-pitt-bridge-tunnel-pittsburgh-meme.jpg http://chelsearoeser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tunnel-monster-meme.jpg http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr03/24/19/enhanced-buzz-12231-1390608466-0.jpg How the fuck did you get that bottom picture with no traffic? Usually that stretch of road is mass chaos.
Pileup in the tunnel.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:30:34 PM EDT
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What do the female natives look like?
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:31:20 PM EDT
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Waiting for someone to defend the abortion called breezewood. Oh dear Lord...
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:38:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The DQ here closes in September and doesn't open again until May, because when it's -20 out no one wants a Blizzard. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I've never understood the it's PA so let's put stop signs at the end of the on ramp thing. Just where you need to be accelerating, you have to stop. Five years I lived in oilcity pa, and every day I wondered why the hell even have a Dairy Queen in Franklin if they didn't have burgers and were closed half the year. The DQ here closes in September and doesn't open again until May, because when it's -20 out no one wants a Blizzard. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:52:27 PM EDT
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I have inlaws there.......the pot holes are a problem, the stop signs? not so much.
My question - Why did they feel the need to have a bridge every 87 feet across the same stinking river? I don't swear to God, but if I did.....I would swear to God that some blind, drunk, mentally challenged, mute with no hands or arms designed and built them all, every 87' |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:57:12 PM EDT
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Potholes have been quite a bit worse this year. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 7:59:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought that privilege belong to Cowboy fans. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: steeler fans are the dumbest people on Earth. I thought that privilege belong to Cowboy fans. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:14:54 PM EDT
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What do the female natives look like? (1) Search for a "what would our baby look like" app for your smartphone. (2) Upload a picture of the Michelin Man and the Pillsbury Doughboy. (3) Imagine the resulting excrescence speaking not only with a mouthful of marbles but also no grasp on the English language. And if anyone defends PENNDOT in this thread then he/she is a commie bastard who needs (to be) ground up in to asphalt and used for coldpatch. I honestly think that the only reason most of the populace doesn't revolt and fire the non-functioning road crews is because they can't afford above ground pools and knocking back a few arn citys in their local pothole is the only reprieve from the sinking depression caused by their menial jobs and dead-end lives. Really though, this is clearly a joke because the average Pittsburgher is too big to fit in their Prius swallowing potholes.
Also, Go Stillers.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:23:00 PM EDT
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And if anyone defends PENNDOT in this thread then he/she is a commie bastard who needs (to be) ground up in to asphalt and used for coldpatch. While I can't speak for PENNDOT, I know all of our trucks are either tied up with the snow/ice removal effert since mid-January, or broke down. Also, coldpatch is in short supply from our vendors due to a problem getting the correct oil to make it. ETA I work for neither PENNDOT or Turnpike, nor would I. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:23:58 PM EDT
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How about this gem? http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af159/ICEMAN19047/ar15com/05170117461.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Been living in PA for 10yrs, never seen one of these stop signs. How about this gem? http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af159/ICEMAN19047/ar15com/05170117461.jpg I raise you WEST-NORTH-SOUTH on one highway east of Williamsport. 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:26:52 PM EDT
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steeler fans are the dumbest people on Earth. This is true and the media here seems to be bought and paid for when it comes to steelers. We like our pot holes.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:29:11 PM EDT
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In all honesty, it's better than DC, But I think the best highways through a city I've been in is Atlanta... 7 (or so) effn lanes... Now that's how you do a highway.
Honestly, none of these are bad in the middle of the night. Heck even DC isn't bad when there is no traffic! And as far as staying home goes, ill slug through it for the dancing! 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:38:14 PM EDT
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I have to disagree with this. Come on down to Morgantown, drive around, and then be thankful Pittsburgh at least has a few roads without craters. WV may have the worst road care I have ever seen in a state. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Driving up into PA from WV makes our roads look nice, and I 79 sucks in wv. 79 sucks so bad in PA they lower the speed limit I have to disagree with this. Come on down to Morgantown, drive around, and then be thankful Pittsburgh at least has a few roads without craters. WV may have the worst road care I have ever seen in a state. I'm talking about the interstate, not downtown. Downtown Morgantown always has been a shithole, never has changed. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:42:11 PM EDT
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I'm talking about the interstate, not downtown. Downtown Morgantown always has been a shithole, never has changed. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Driving up into PA from WV makes our roads look nice, and I 79 sucks in wv. 79 sucks so bad in PA they lower the speed limit I have to disagree with this. Come on down to Morgantown, drive around, and then be thankful Pittsburgh at least has a few roads without craters. WV may have the worst road care I have ever seen in a state. I'm talking about the interstate, not downtown. Downtown Morgantown always has been a shithole, never has changed. I always figured those were burn marks from all the couches. 
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:48:25 PM EDT
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While I can't speak for PENNDOT, I know all of our trucks are either tied up with the snow/ice removal effert since mid-January, or broke down. Also, coldpatch is in short supply from our vendors due to a problem getting the correct oil to make it. ETA I work for neither PENNDOT or Turnpike, nor would I. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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And if anyone defends PENNDOT in this thread then he/she is a commie bastard who needs (to be) ground up in to asphalt and used for coldpatch. While I can't speak for PENNDOT, I know all of our trucks are either tied up with the snow/ice removal effert since mid-January, or broke down. Also, coldpatch is in short supply from our vendors due to a problem getting the correct oil to make it. ETA I work for neither PENNDOT or Turnpike, nor would I. Has this been the case for the last 30+ years? If so, then I suggest that they get more trucks and find a new vendor. If not, then fire the assholes who take 10 years to resurface a 1-mile, 1-lane stretch of highway EVERYWHERE in the fucking state. PENNDOT is one of the best examples of how unions reaching in the to front pockets of politicians can completely fuck over a society. Fuck them and the roller they road in on. Bad pun intended, because even a 20 ton roller is going to have a fucking hard time with the lunar surfaces PA calls roads. |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:53:40 PM EDT
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When it comes to roads, you can do it two ways. Build it once to last at great expense every 15 years or so, or build it cheap and "maintain" it infinitely. In PA, we years ago chose the latter.
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Posted: 3/8/2015 8:57:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wat ded u juss sayyy?! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: steeler fans are the dumbest people on Earth. Wat ded u juss sayyy?! |
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Posted: 3/8/2015 9:04:45 PM EDT
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Pennsylvania... It's Philly to the East, Pittsburgh to the West, and Alabama in between.
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