I am so happy the genious at work has decided to come out of his shell and rain down his fabulousness on good ol' 480. On my drive home from our picnic/cookout thing-a-moroll for work I was entering I-480 from the Kent direction and happened upon the construction zone that has been being worked on for a while now. I never noticed this from the numerous times I've been on the same road coming home from work everyday but they are paving the freeway with black asphalt. This in itself doesn't seem strange, at all, but then I really thought about it. Why on earth would you pave your freeway in black asphalt? I mean, it's black, number one, and two, it's black. What genious thought it was clever to make driving even harder at night? ...while going 75mph? Not to mention that there are no street lights on 480. So the equation goes as follows: curvy, poor-lit road + black paint - reflecting center line + increased speed limit + Ohio Turnpike onramp - common sense = Safe Auto and ODOT partnership.
It also doesn't help that my headlights are complete shit and my high beams are weaker than most car's low beams. Regardless of the hand holding going on in the insurance and transportation departments paving your roads that have no other light source besides the moon and your clouded up head lights for sight is completely idiotic. And now I really, REALLY want to snap into a Slim-Jim.
Wrestling with Beauty....
10 years ago
Interesting insight. Add cateracts in both your eyes, lack of road attention due to cell phone use, and/or playing with the radio and you have yourself a flattened Dodge and an even more flattened me. Don't snap into that slim-jim for it may be your last!
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