Highway shoulder washed away (Bodi price not affected)

Country_Bookie · Postby **Country_Bookie** » November 14th, 2014, 4:27 pm

Has the misfortune to be in a taxi playing Sunshine radio this morning (ILP station). If the retards on that station was my only news source, I would’ve sworn the entire stretch of highway collapsed, all roads are closed and the entire population of South is stranded.

All that for 5 metres of shoulder. Sensationalism at its best.

Ted_v2 · Postby **Ted_v2** » November 15th, 2014, 9:42 pm

Ilp and PNM people having a Field day with this.
I personally believe they forq it up a nite or something, proof I lacking.

zoom rader · Postby **zoom rader** » November 15th, 2014, 9:51 pm

Ted_v2 wrote:Ilp and PNM people having a Field day with this.
I personally believe they forq it up a nite or something, proof I lacking.

Anything is possible with PNM, from cocaine & missiles to voter padding.

brams112 · Postby **brams112** » November 16th, 2014, 8:30 pm

j.o.e wrote:After one year highway washes away..but its ok because politics allows us to defend it by finding a remotely similar occurrence in the past under another regime, and this is why we will get no where. Nothing is wrong with support...but it should not be blind.
So now the standard is that even with exorbitant costs, Trini roads should should cave under normal rainfall. Heaven help us

Is the land that next to the shoulder began sliding fool,not the road or highway,take a drive and see nah.

j.o.e · Postby **j.o.e** » November 16th, 2014, 8:49 pm

brams112 wrote:
j.o.e wrote:After one year highway washes away..but its ok because politics allows us to defend it by finding a remotely similar occurrence in the past under another regime, and this is why we will get no where. Nothing is wrong with support...but it should not be blind.
So now the standard is that even with exorbitant costs, Trini roads should should cave under normal rainfall. Heaven help us

Is the land that next to the shoulder began sliding fool,not the road or highway,take a drive and see nah.

Shouldn't the side of a recently built highway have sufficient drainage and retaining walls to not be undermined by regular rainfall? I don't need to take a drive because I've seen it myself.
A brand new highway built from scratch on virgin soil isn't just asphalt thrown where grass was it's supposed to have a sub surface thick enough with perpendicular reinforcement and drainage. Land sliding at the side isn't suppose to undermine it after a few days rain....had it been "just the land next to the shoulder" the shoulder and edge of the road surface wouldn't crack so easily.