L.A. Times: Massive traffic jam on 10 Freeway becomes Caltrans scandal (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-epic-traffic-20120217,0,567917.story)
A routine road project west of Palm Springs went awry Sunday, backing up traffic about 25 miles and forcing drivers to endure delays of five hours or longer. Caltrans says that a series of errors were to blame.
Wow... that's really bad. But, that's Caltrans.
Quote from: rschen7754 on February 17, 2012, 01:38:41 PM
Wow... that's really bad. But, that's Caltrans.
I've driven that part of I-10 enough to know it pretty well, and closing lanes for that long on any days is assured to be the disaster that the L.A. Times reported.
But I don't reside in California, and I don't get the impression from my (admittedly limited) visits there that Caltrans commits such screw-ups frequently.
Is my impression incorrect?
Quote from: cpzilliacus on February 19, 2012, 03:05:33 PM
Quote from: rschen7754 on February 17, 2012, 01:38:41 PM
Wow... that's really bad. But, that's Caltrans.
I've driven that part of I-10 enough to know it pretty well, and closing lanes for that long on any days is assured to be the disaster that the L.A. Times reported.
But I don't reside in California, and I don't get the impression from my (admittedly limited) visits there that Caltrans commits such screw-ups frequently.
Is my impression incorrect?
More than you will ever know! :D