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The Long Way Home

Because the Utah Department of Transportation decided to close every fucking on-ramp to I-15 South bound it took me an extra almost an hour to get home from work tonight. Keep in mind that it normally takes about a half hour. I couldn’t believe it. Of course, me being me, I had to go to their web site and let them know how I feel.

Tell me, what over-paid, under-worked, pencil-pushing, government paid, blithering idiot thought it was a good idea to close EVERY FREAKING ONRAMP TO I-15 SOUTH BOUND from I-215 to 90th south tonight? I couldn’t get home because of this idiotic mess. The only reason something like this would be warranted would be if you’re BUILDING A NEW FREAKING FREEWAY FROM SCRATCH!!!

The lack of intelligence required to do such a stupid thing makes me wonder how whoever decided to do it can even perform basic motor functions like breathing, or scratching your ass.

This is precisely why the average taxpayer rolls their eyes at government functionaries like you.

Do EVERYONE a favor. DO NOT CLOSE access to the freeway. If you feel that you must, then your plan is not good. Put that expensive education to use and think of a better plan.

And I did leave my contact information. I dare these assholes to follow up.

Keep in mind that I know the roads here so I can work my way through it. But I pity the poor asshole who was just trying to pass through on I-215 trying to connect to I-15. They would’ve come up on an on ramp that was just simply closed. No detour signs, no warning, no FUCKING NOTHING.

OK, now I need a beer before I go to bed.

Rant out. 

i’ve been a victim of the UDOT dumbfuckery during the pre-Olympic freeway construction clusterfuck. mind you, we WERE one of those newbies you mentioned and got stuck many a time with those closed off and on-ramps with no signs other than CLOSED.

way to give them a piece of your mind, but you know nothing will come of it. i wouldn’t be surprised if it was just deleted because of profanity. that’s the worst thing: being unable to call an asshole an asshole because they’re too much of an asshole to listen to you. haw!

Actually, I did get a response. From the District Engineer. It was the typical desk-jockey speak. He did say that the message boards should have directed motorists to an alternative route. I wrote back and suggested they flip the switch next time because the message boards I drove by had nothing.

This was all for painting new lines on the road. Wha??? And that requires the closure of the fuckin’ freeway???

i’m surprised you got a response. that’s at least something.

yeah, painting new lines requires the shutdown of the ENTIRE interstate? hmmmm....

we can fit 20,000 songs onto a device the size of a wallet, and 4 GB of memory into something the size of a postage stamp, but we can’t come up with a better way to paint lines on a freeway than to shut the whole thing down?