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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 2587653" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>They're doing a lot of construction on Hwy 75 northbound from Tulsa to Bartlesville right now and it's got me curious. </p><p></p><p>They're adding in a probably 4-foot shoulder to the inside lines of a divided 4-lane highway. Not sure what that accomplishes, because it's not level with the road, it obviously slopes down from the main roadbed, which already had a 2-foot shoulder on the inside and a 6-foot+ shoulder on the outside. But here's the catch, to me... and maybe someone can explain this to me. They're adding this shoulder in alternating sections from each side. Yeah... they'll add a couple hundred feet on the interior of the northbound side, then terminated it, sod everything (like they're <strong>done</strong>) and then switch to the southbound side for the next section. They've don't this for several miles now. It's not a shoulder that will later be added into a 3rd lane for several reasons. </p><p></p><p>1. There's no need for a 6-lane divided highway between Tulsa and Bartlesville.</p><p>2. The shoulder slopes way too much to be made into a driveable lane.</p><p>3. It alternates between northbound and southbound every few hundred yards. And they're sodding the sections in-between. They're done.</p><p></p><p>I don't see the purpose of this couple extra feet in alternating, sloping sections.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Can anyone tell me why they spent a year cutting holes in the same road in rectangular dashes every few feet, then filling those holes with concrete? This was... oh, 2009, I think. That road when you drive down it, looks like you're driving over a long series of dashed lines pointing with the flow of traffic, three abreast per lane. I wondered if they were putting some kind of sensors in there (Google cars that drive themselves, etc?) or some kind of stress relief, or whatever... but after 4 years or so now, those concrete "plugs" they put in are breaking up and coming out. I never found out why the hell they were cutting holes in a (relatively) perfectly good road?</p><p></p><p>It looks like this (IN the lane, <strong>between </strong>the lines) when you're driving on it:</p><p></p><p>| | |</p><p>| | |</p><p>| | |</p><p>| | |</p><p>| | |</p><p>| | |</p><p>| | |</p><p>| | |</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 2587653, member: 9374"] They're doing a lot of construction on Hwy 75 northbound from Tulsa to Bartlesville right now and it's got me curious. They're adding in a probably 4-foot shoulder to the inside lines of a divided 4-lane highway. Not sure what that accomplishes, because it's not level with the road, it obviously slopes down from the main roadbed, which already had a 2-foot shoulder on the inside and a 6-foot+ shoulder on the outside. But here's the catch, to me... and maybe someone can explain this to me. They're adding this shoulder in alternating sections from each side. Yeah... they'll add a couple hundred feet on the interior of the northbound side, then terminated it, sod everything (like they're [B]done[/B]) and then switch to the southbound side for the next section. They've don't this for several miles now. It's not a shoulder that will later be added into a 3rd lane for several reasons. 1. There's no need for a 6-lane divided highway between Tulsa and Bartlesville. 2. The shoulder slopes way too much to be made into a driveable lane. 3. It alternates between northbound and southbound every few hundred yards. And they're sodding the sections in-between. They're done. I don't see the purpose of this couple extra feet in alternating, sloping sections. Can anyone tell me why they spent a year cutting holes in the same road in rectangular dashes every few feet, then filling those holes with concrete? This was... oh, 2009, I think. That road when you drive down it, looks like you're driving over a long series of dashed lines pointing with the flow of traffic, three abreast per lane. I wondered if they were putting some kind of sensors in there (Google cars that drive themselves, etc?) or some kind of stress relief, or whatever... but after 4 years or so now, those concrete "plugs" they put in are breaking up and coming out. I never found out why the hell they were cutting holes in a (relatively) perfectly good road? It looks like this (IN the lane, [B]between [/B]the lines) when you're driving on it: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [/QUOTE]
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