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Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:22 pm

..the same reason that in Logan County we have communities called 21. 22 and 5&6. We ain't got no better learnin'

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:08 pm

Corridor G was started when I was in grade school.
I have been retired over 5 years now.
Same with the rest of them.
It has always been corridor G.
I used to go to 22 all the time.

Bob Campbell · Post by **Bob Campbell** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:20 pm

Sorry for the typo. The damn G and H are just so close together. Neither one would be there without Byrd.

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:03 pm

That's true, but an interesting thing happened to me when I was around 12 or so (and this one doesn't involve my creepy Uncle Buzz and his whole "touch it" thing). A bunch of us young punks were in Holden, downtown Holden, in Logan County USA. This big Lincoln pulls up to us kids as we were walking down "the street". The window rolls down and this older gentlemen asks us how we are doing. We tell him fine and he asks what we think about them tearing down all the houses in Holden to make room for Corridor G. The guys then introduces himself as A. James Manchin, as says we will never see Corridor G during our life times. He then drives off. The year is now 2007 and I drive Corridor G nearly every day. Today I drove it to Williamson for a meeting. Tomorrow I will drive it to do a remote with Thornhill Ford/GM at Fountain Place Mall.

Is there a point to this? No.

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:04 pm

I am starting to really miss Hallburn.

PassiveObserver · Post by **PassiveObserver** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:25 pm

Corridor D here in Parkersburg doubles as a road and a maze.

Greg Goodfellow · Post by **Greg Goodfellow** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:02 pm

daveinthemorning wrote:
Is there a point to this? No.

The point is that the further one gets from Charleston, the crappier the roads are. Many on this board are familiar with the trainwreck that is Route 2. Much promised, very little delivered. Without great roads, forget about economic development. Of course, great roads tend to get one out of the state a little quicker and with much less damage to the vehicle.

Byrd has greatly aided certain parts of the state, resulting in massive (for West Virginia, anyway) growth. However, he's done nothing in this neck of the woods.

PassiveObserver · Post by **PassiveObserver** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:11 pm

By the time Rt.2 becomes a four-lane I'll be dead.

Jay Nunley · Post by **Jay Nunley** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:21 pm

I will fix Rt 2 when I'm governor. We're going to train our prisoners to be road crews (amongst over things). This will eliminate a bunch of tax funded state road jobs and will get me shot, but most of my decisions and policies are going to be terribly unpopular and will likely get me shot.

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:13 am

Dr. Whiplash wrote:Why in the hell do people refer to these highways by their original ARC construction designations instead of their actual marked route numbers?

cause they took so long to get built, people were used to driving on and off of "corridor G" for the 20+ years it took to get it into a solid highway...

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:13 am

Jay Nunley wrote:I will fix Rt 2 when I'm governor. We're going to train our prisoners to be road crews (amongst over things). This will eliminate a bunch of tax funded state road jobs and will get me shot, but most of my decisions and policies are going to be terribly unpopular and will likely get me shot.

for a decent price i'll gladly be a human shield..

Oldiesdude · Post by **Oldiesdude** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:09 am

Many on this board are familiar with the trainwreck that is Route 2. Much promised, very little delivered.

Gee Greg, I thought Route 2 was fixed back in the days of Jay Rockerfeller. (Anyone remember the, Bumpy, Bump Ad that he ran for his election.). Truth is most of Route 2 is being kept in this shape, is so people traveling North from Parkersburg, or South from Weirton, to the highlands in Wheeling will get a pre-thrill ride before jumping on the New Rollercoaster that they are going to be building. That is if they live through their travels.
We will never see good roads, outside the metro area of Wheeling, it costs too much to patch, rebuild, shore up, and maintain what we have, there is never any money left to build a real road.
Besides, where are we going to place all the little crosses along the roadway of a 4-lane.

(Jumping down off his soap-box)

Hoosier Daddy · Post by **Hoosier Daddy** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:12 am

You all have forgotten the Grande Poo-Bah of all West Virginia Deathtrap Roads ...

US 35 from Point Pleasant to Winfield

Bob Campbell · Post by **Bob Campbell** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:01 am

I drove that road for 5 months commuting to The River for Charleston. It's really fun at 3:30 in the morning. Just me, the 18 wheelers and 4000 deer.
You want to see eternal road construction, ask Lester about I-40 in Raleigh/Durham. Hell, ask me about the Greensboro/Winston Salem beltway.

Dr. Whiplash · Post by **Dr. Whiplash** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:23 am

FearPeddler wrote:
Dr. Whiplash wrote:Why in the hell do people refer to these highways by their original ARC construction designations instead of their actual marked route numbers?

cause they took so long to get built, people were used to driving on and off of "corridor G" for the 20+ years it took to get it into a solid highway...

Thank you, Peddler. An explanation after all these years!

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:34 am

We finally hit about a year of no construction on I-40. That's how long it took for the substandard work they had just wrapped up to start breaking down.

Some people got fired, some news stories got written, and the orange barrels are back in bloom.

Let's not forget the greatest pork barrel waste of all time... the ORIGINAL corridor H. There is still 7 miles of beautifully paved 4-lane that goes from wha? to where?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Elkins... 0.163078&t=k&iwloc=addr

weaver · Post by **weaver** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:59 am

S. Adams wrote:By the time Rt.2 becomes a four-lane I'll be dead.

It's not even a two-lane in many places, thanks to the landslides.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:03 am

fanofbigmedia wrote:I am starting to really miss Hallburn.

who?

The People's DJ · Post by **The People's DJ** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:24 am

Jay Nunley wrote:I will fix Rt 2 when I'm governor. We're going to train our prisoners to be road crews (amongst over things). This will eliminate a bunch of tax funded state road jobs and will get me shot, but most of my decisions and policies are going to be terribly unpopular and will likely get me shot.

Soooo...how much $$$$$ for my vote?

fanofbigmedia wrote:I am starting to really miss Hallburn.

[Hallburn]At one time I was on the road commission in Califorina. I also help build many of the highways in Califorina. Did I tell you all about the time I met......[/Hallburn]

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:16 am

The People's DJ wrote:[Hallburn]At one time I was on the road commission in Califorina. I also help build many of the highways in Califorina. Did I tell you all about the time I met......[/Hallburn]

What about:

I64 - West Huntington to Huntington Mall Exit
I64 - St. Albans to South Charleston
WV Rt. 10 - Between Logan and Man

Speaking of Corridor G, they finally installed a real stop light at the Alum Creek "exit". It only took.. what? 50 traffic related deaths at that intersection before they got it done.

HD wrote:US 35 from Point Pleasant to Winfield

Its a same, too, because 35 from the Point to Columbus or Chil. is a breeze.

Other scary drives:

I95 through Jacksonville, FL
I64 through Hampton Roads (Zak?)
I64 Richmond to Hampton Roads
I77 through Charlotte (75 in a 55 anyone?)
I64 Beckley to Charleston