Its Like Deja Vu All Over Again

      In the area I live, the main highway used to be a 2-lane road until the population began increasing by like 2,000 people a year.  So around 2007, the town leaders had realized that perhaps a bigger road would alleviate all the traffic congestion that was beginning to occur daily.  Fantastic, and way to go, city officials! So the orange cones came out, the detours began, and all was well.  Mind you, this widening adventure began in 2007 and last I looked at my watch, it's currently 2018.  MID 2018 and the orange cones are still standing proudly.

     Over the past year or so, we have seen construction and then no construction, seen construction and then no construction like the tides of the ocean.  Seems there may have been some misunderstandings in planning or possible sacred bones discovered along the way to hold everything up.  No one's really sure. Every once in awhile, a new lane will open up on one section of the highway and, Hooray! All of us drivers sitting in less traffic think to ourselves.  Progress!  But then the cones get dusty, the tractors don't move, and everyone starts to wonder what the hold up is...again.  Although, in our minds we are all saying, WHAT THE HELL IS THE GAWD DAMN HOLD-UP, PEOPLE??????  And then the honking begins.  (Actually, no one really honks here unless there's a goat or a chicken holding up traffic on any given road, or if someone left a cup of coffee on the roof of their car, we might just be trying to let them know.)  But I digress...

    So while driving on the highway a few weeks ago, I discovered that the 2 lanes heading north were finally finished!  Roll the windows down, turn the music up, and time to cel-e-brate!! Let's speed it up!!  Yet, for some reason the posted speed limit remained as a "construction zone" speed and a cop was parked on the side of the highway with a radar gun pointed at us in all our new-lane-glory. He's seriously got to realize that a new lane to drive on is very difficult to maintain a 35 mph speed limit in all our exploratory excitement.  At least for me it is.  But more importantly, on the other side of the wide grassy divider was STILL one lane with tons of traffic much of the day.  In order to open up the second lane that's coned off, all they simply needed to do was black-out the yellow lines and re-draw them in the appropriate color used for same-direction lanes.  Done.  Finished.  Move on to the next construction zone.  Easy peasy.  (Cue record scratch sound.)

     A few days ago, I found myself on this said highway and noticed that not only have they still not finished re-coloring the lines to open up both southbound lanes, they have decided to RE-PAVE the motherfucker AGAIN!!!  I just don't understand the whole road building requirements, but geez c'mon guys!  I think we might need a refresher course in highway repair.