Rough Roads....was: Re: [Shotimes] Delrin subframe bushings

[Zach Leahy]

I think about ht eworst expressway road I have been on is I69 just
coming into michigan. IIRC, they still have the original surface up to
about 2 years ago.  It was unreal how bad it was.  dad lost a wheel
tire on that road on his cadillac!  A minefield would have been a more
enjoyable ride.

Hey Ron P, have they fixed it yet?  I have not been that way for a while....

Z

On 5/3/05, George Fourchy <krazgeo@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 07:20:17 -0500, Zach Leahy wrote:
> 
> >I remember riding with george and he was complaining about some of the
> >california roads....
> 
> LOL!!
> 
> I used to brag (not to you guys, but to my USAF friends in the '70s and '80s) about
> our roads (concrete freeways in particular) not needing repaving since the '50s,
> when they were built...even over Donner Summit, at 7000 feet.
> 
> Now I can tell you their lifespans.....they wore out 10 years ago.  Back then (in
> the '70s), there was money to fix them, but they didn't need it.  Now they do, and
> there is no money.  I just now drove home from Oakland to Fairfield on I-80....the
> same section those of you who took the SFO tour last summer used.  It is REALLY
> falling apart.  Lowrider is parked for a few days, waiting for a new starter
> solenoid and to have two wheels straightened...the two that didn't dodge the offramp
> curb bullet I was talking about previously.  The GS has a really nice ride, and its
> wheels are definitely balanced.....but it gets tossed around like a pebble skipping
> over water when it goes over the huge cracks in the two right lanes that trucks use.
> Some of those sections that are broken are 2 or 3 inches lower than the surrounding
> pavement.  CalTrans tries to fix them on occasion.....they use that super fast
> curing concrete patch stuff.  I don't know which is worse, the patch or the cracks.
> 
> I-80 in Nevada is good now....it took them 20+ years to learn to make concrete that
> doesn't disintigrate in frozen weather.  Utah needs work.  Wyoming is learning, like
> Nevada.  Nebraska is good.  East of there, one has to REALLY watch where he is
> going.  I've kidded you Illinois folks about your roads, and Neno especially about
> Chicago and Skokie and its washboards (and rusty bridges).
> 
> I sure miss the old days!!!
> 
> ;-)
> 
> George
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