Yes you are accurate once again. There is a stretch of UTSA Blvd.in San Antonio, a small stretch, maybe four miles, from Babcock to near the Costco take three years to complete. The subgrade was completely finished from one end to the other. It just needed road gravel and asphalt to complete. That's it. Ridiculous.
The contractors?
You see because it involves state funding the law (contract) says the state will pay the contractor no matter what. They cannot weasel their way out of paying the contractor.
If they were building a Super Walmart say, where time was of the essence for completion, the contractor either performs in a timely fashion or else they will not get paid at all and they will be run off from the site and another contractor will be put in place. As for Walmart, what do THEY think of this development?
A partially finished Walmart for free because the contractor could not perform as the contract reads ?
So as I was writing earlier, UTSA Blvd sat there for three years. Not one worker was to be seen there for three years. SO, this was a one lane highway right off the Campus. Where were they all working? Someplace else I tell you. Abandonment , whatever you like to call it.
Yes San Antonio is small. It depends on what you are used to. It once took me five hours to drive from one end of Chicago to the other.
Yes, it's true. L.A. sometimes takes one hour to move one exit worth of roadway. This what the hell I am talking about. Yet in San Antonio......
Thirty minutes from 1604 south and and Highway 16 to Stone Oak?
This is wonderful time. Detroit, population 6 million in the metro area is very bad also but not nearly as bad as Chicago. To cross Detroit takes about an hour maybe more (+1\2 hr.- usually always, car fires, fatalities, rollovers) depending on delays, accidents and road work.
So you see my friend it all depends on perspective. I've driven from 1604
and 151 to FM 87 and s. loop 1604 in twenty minutes! Anything else?
That's what the hell I am talking about. NO, I WASN'T SPEEDING. You are naive is all. There is nothing nothing wrong with that. This is why I love the size and relative lack of congestion here. Yes I've been in traffic jams in S.A.
but it is not as bad as I've been in before.
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Originally Posted by Restless One
I would agree with if not for the outright abandonment of some sites. I've seen the turnaround at 410 and Rigsby take over a year and a half now, and only half of that with work crews on site. And they still have the other side to go. Flyovers coming from 410 to I10 East and West. And I haven't even mentioned the second level from 410/I35 interchange going North to 3009. That recently broke ground too.
San Antonio is small??? Not according to geography. It's plenty spread out. It takes 30 minutes, with no traffic, from 410 South and Hwy 16 to Stone Oak. Alamo Ranch to East Houston is no better. What the hell are you talking about? in the future. all for it as well.
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