4 thoughts on “You think our roads are bad? (H/T-Little Frankie)”
The James River valley has always been a problem. Many roads between Yankton and Beresford are often a problem. There should be a focus on drainage solutions so that section roads stay passable spring to fall. It’s rich agricultural ground but also valuable alternative farming and gentlemen ranches. I’d like to see catfish and shrimp farming. Nobody will live there if they can’t access the area.
Maybe we could figure out a way to channel the mud from spring flooding into our local potholes…. Because then, we would be full of it, but others wouldn’t have to put up with it.
Sioux Falls insisted on a water system called Lewis & Clark from Vermilion to Sioux Falls. The construction of this pipeline destroyed the county and township road beds. The roads were supposed to be made whole when finished but never were. The additional traffic on the east-west roads leading to the northbound pipeline were never fixed.
The roads had decades of well maintained solid base now totally gone because of the heavy equipment and trucks beating everything up. Now the project is operating, the counties and townships taxpayers are stuck with the rebuilding of hundreds of miles of roads.
There are many semis operating on the axle rate 7 ton gravel roads because the asphalt roads are axle rated at 6 ton. Some of the overloaded semis are running the gravel also to evade the scales, HP and county mounties.
The James River valley has always been a problem. Many roads between Yankton and Beresford are often a problem. There should be a focus on drainage solutions so that section roads stay passable spring to fall. It’s rich agricultural ground but also valuable alternative farming and gentlemen ranches. I’d like to see catfish and shrimp farming. Nobody will live there if they can’t access the area.
Maybe we could figure out a way to channel the mud from spring flooding into our local potholes…. Because then, we would be full of it, but others wouldn’t have to put up with it.
Sioux Falls insisted on a water system called Lewis & Clark from Vermilion to Sioux Falls. The construction of this pipeline destroyed the county and township road beds. The roads were supposed to be made whole when finished but never were. The additional traffic on the east-west roads leading to the northbound pipeline were never fixed.
The roads had decades of well maintained solid base now totally gone because of the heavy equipment and trucks beating everything up. Now the project is operating, the counties and townships taxpayers are stuck with the rebuilding of hundreds of miles of roads.
There are many semis operating on the axle rate 7 ton gravel roads because the asphalt roads are axle rated at 6 ton. Some of the overloaded semis are running the gravel also to evade the scales, HP and county mounties.