Okay, I don't know if I spelled the plural of genuis right. But I'll bet I am still smarter than the idiots who are planning the highways around here.
On my home every night (this is the absolute truth) I drive on two portions of two different highways that are "accident reduction zones." This means that there are MANY accidents in both of those areas. And honestly, it happens about once a week during my regular traffic time.
So what, you may ask, do they do to help reduce accidents?? They put up signs that say, "Accident reduction zone" so people have to take their attention away from driving and read the sign in the highly dangerous area. Now THAT is smart!
Actually though, the one area has been much improved the last year due to major construction and a portion of the highway being closed. Because a portion was closed, that meant all people had to exit the highway. To accommodate this, they made what was previously one lane south and one lane north into one lane south and TWO lanes north. This greatly reduced the traffic congestion to non-existant and really did make the area reduce the number of accidents.
"Wow! They did something right," you are thinking. But slow down. The story isn't over yet.
So, after over a year of the highway being closed down (at this point I might add that the highway closing was a major highway and a major problem) they are getting ready to reopen a portion next week. "In honor" of that event, they felt they should put the exits back to the way they were - THIS WEEK! BEFORE THEY OPEN THE NEW SECTION!!!
Can you say idiots???
Why on earth couldn't they open the highway back up and THEN go back to the regular lane exits??? Did they not see how beautiful traffic was flowing? Did they not notice the reduction of accidents?? Did they think that no one was using the area anymore because traffic moved so smoothly???
Needless to say, I will be dealing with this the rest of the week because someone never learned not to put the cart in front of the horse. They are welcome to come back to my classroom and review cause and effect. My fourth graders understand it way better than the MODOT engineers do.
Thank goodness I have this blog or I would stew and rant and rave all week. Now that it is out, I can just drive in peaceful oblivion and work on avoiding all the accidents. (yeah right)
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