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OT: Weasel of the Week - DelDOT

Posted On September 4, 2006 4:41 PM By Phil in Rants

I normally don't like to use this blog for rants, but in this case I will. I nominate the Delaware Department of Transportation for the idiocy of their I-95 construction. If you haven't driven down I-95 through Delaware recently, they have two construction projects going on, the first is the replacement of one bridge over I-95 just north of Delaware 1 exit. The other is work on a bridge just south of the rest area, over Delaware 72. This area has consitently had one lane shut down for the past two-months (why it takes two months to do anything, is beyond me, but I'll leave that for another day). However, on one of the most heavily traveled weekends of the year, the smart people of DelDOT thought it best to close TWO lanes of I-95 south-bound traffic. Now, if the bridge had been torn apart, I might have lived with it, but there were no signs of work, no road torn up, seals uncoverred, nothing. The result of all this, it took 45 minutes on Saturday afternoon to get from Rt. 1 through the Delaware toll. Again, that's 45 minutes on a Saturday afternoon. I can't imagine how bad it was on Friday and Monday nights. I might just start taking U.S. 1 and avoid the state altogether.

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That's why the state is refered to as "Duh-laware" and the road weasels as DumbDOT. Their contractors finally finished both projects (sorta) one day before Thanksgiving. It seems that there was a magic day beyond which the contractor could no longer string-out the job. But the cones still haven't been completely cleared-away from the Churchman's Bridge project (the jobsite just N. of Rt. 1) and "workers" are still futzing around on the overpass approaches over a month later as 2007 dawns. During any holiday period, Rt. 4 is a good choice to get around the perennial backup caused my the limited number of toll booths that DumbDOT has at the MD/DE border, plus it allows a driver to bypass the $3 toll each way that Duh-laware tries to scam out of you for their miniscule 11-mile stretch of I-95 from the MD border to the DE Memorial Bridge connecting to NJ (one of the most expensive tolls per mile in the USA).

# By Thomas Weitkamp | 1/3/07 11:16 AM

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