OT: Building the ALCAN hwy.

[wierdscience]

Just watched a special on the construction of the ALCAN hwy,simply amazing.1500 miles of road in 8 months,all with gas burning EARLY dozers and tractors.Bet we couldn't do it today.

[Dave Opincarne]

Your not going to admit to watching public broadcasting are you? I'm going to report you to the John Birch Society.

[Tuckerfan]

I've seen that show, and it irritates the crap out of me that they can't complete a 5 mile extension of the interstate in less than 10 years, in a mild climate like Tennessee.

[mattc]

if you drove the ALCAN hwy about 20 years ago you would sware they had not done any improvements since they ran the first dozers through, there is a road here (the Glenn Highway) which runs from Tok to Anchorage about 400 miles that was built the same way during WW2 and there is still some streches in the mountains that has 14 ft lanes and no sholders, it would be an enteresting drive if it were not the main road


Matt in AK

[Finnbear]

If you watched the PBS thing tonite you saw a customer of mine - a guy named Wallace Lytle who was there building the Hiway. He runs a paving company near here and always has time to talk about his days there. PBS flew him and his son to St Louis or somewhere a little over a year ago when they were making this special.

[wierdscience]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dave Opincarne:
Your not going to admit to watching public broadcasting are you? I'm going to report you to the John Birch Society. </font>

Dave,even the libs that run PBS realize they need shows like that to stay on the air Aids carrying Sesame Street muppets just ain't gettin it

[Tinkerer]

Not only that but I bet they came in on budget as well. Nowadays they can fill a pothole without cost over runs.

Tim

[Excitable Boy]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Tinkerer:
Not only that but I bet they came in on budget as well. Nowadays they can fill a pothole without cost over runs.

Tim</font>

But you don't understand. Before we can fix the pothole, we have to understand why it is the way it is. Were it's parents really holes, or just dips? Were all the neighbors speed freaks? We have no idea how this pot hole came into being and probably can't do it anything but harm until we understand it's background. We must commission a study!

hehehe.........

Oh to have lived in a time when a hard day's work was part of the deal, lawyers didn't rule everything and it was ok to have a spine! It's amazing what our country accomplished when we needed to pull together and weren't ruined by political correctness.

John



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[Tuckerfan]

I heard an interesting story about what one guy would do when he got sick and tired of the city not patching the pot holes. He went out and got some saw horses, painted them up, put lights on them, then took a small tree and planted it in the pothole (at around 3 AM when there was no traffic on the road), stuck the saw horses around the tree (so no one would hurt it), and then sat back and watched the fun.

It wasn't too long after daylight that the tree got reported to the city. Immediately afterwards, a road crew showed up and fixed the pot hole (presumably removing the tree first).

[IOWOLF]

THAT would be hard to get away with with all the cameras in the citys now.