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Old 01-01-2009, 06:46 AM
 
Location: Gary, WV & Springfield, ME
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The only drawback it the roads are so bad!!!! If 7 fell off the earth and was replaced I would have no issue with it.
Welcome to the state where a few lame brains decided to tout WV as a vacation destination with a new motto "Open for Business" and neglected to let anyone else in the state in on it, much less fix the roads.
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Old 01-01-2009, 07:09 AM
 
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Roads cost money...In Fairmont, a bridge was restored...Yes, restored to the tune of 28 million dollars...with cost overruns it ended up 51 million dollars...that was for new lights and a paint job.
then it was connected to the Interstate...that one mile of road is over 150 million dollars..and still climbing...It started out in the 25 million dollar range...

Being linked to the interstate highway, it is a "Road to Nowhere...as Farimont is truely NOWHERE. What did it do...put a lot of money in the city treasury for retirement...2% B&O Tax...on the Gross Amount of the build.

I'm told that a NEW riverboat style casino will grace the end of the project...and the city fathers can't wait.
As this is happening for the Fairmonters and it continues to dwindle, Morgantown suffers with increased traffic congestion, continued business and residential building and NO ROAD SOLUTIONS...and the MoJoites have served notice for Morgantown..."NO MONEY FOR ROADS...DO IT YOURSELF"

Someone...somewhere is not getting paid...or we would have a project at least in study...In the old days a lot of money was made by doing studies...

A coating of 1 inch black asphalt is what we get..cover the cowpaths with it...cover the rail-to-trails with it...cover the (roads?) with it...
what it does for the politicians is cover their a$$'s...for about 2 years...time has shown that is enough for an election cycle...
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Old 01-01-2009, 01:20 PM
 
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Mixed Blessing. WV grew because of coal. WV lost mountains because of coal.
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Old 01-03-2009, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Charleston, WV
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The roads are being built in Eastern Panhandle for all the DC area newbies and in Mason/Putnam (along Ohio border).

AliceT, call out the militia - those darn foreigners are invading.
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Old 01-03-2009, 05:54 PM
 
Location: Western Pennsylvania
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Rte 7 west of Morgantown is kept in poor repair intentionally, to keep the flatlanders who find their way west on I-68 from getting any closer to Mobley.
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Old 01-03-2009, 07:33 PM
 
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Rte 7 west of Morgantown is kept in poor repair intentionally, to keep the flatlanders who find their way west on I-68 from getting any closer to Mobley.


Flat-landers I guess that's me.
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