Louisiana roads now rank 40th in the United States. In 2011 the state was ranked 21st. The drop in the states ranking is said to be due to a drop in maintenance spending for the states roads.
Starting Monday, if you're using the stretch of Interstate between the big Calcasieu River bridge and PPG Drive along I-10, things are going to start getting slower. For the next six months, the state DOTD will be rebuilding that nasty stretch of highway.
Not once, but twice this past week (just hours apart, actually), I encountered a very strange occurrence. I was driving along, minding my own business, trying to get on the Interstate when the car in front of me came to a DEAD STOP on the Interstate on-ramp. On the ON-RAMP! These people were clearly trying to kill poor, lil ol’ me – a person who’s never done anything wrong to anyone ever! Any