Healing the Highway... [Archive] - My Hattiesburg Community

dream member

08-24-2007, 09:15 AM

For any of you who ever travel to the coast...the roads will be less bumpy! :)

Transportation officials on Thursday announced they would begin the multimillion-dollar U.S. 90 reconstruction project in September, some two months behind schedule.

http://www.sunherald.com/278/story/127117.html

*this is strictly my opinion* I vote that they put in a lane strictly for tourists, if you get caught outside the lane, you have to walk the rest of the way! :-D

SoMissTV

08-24-2007, 09:20 AM

I vote that they put in a lane strictly for tourists, if you get caught outside the lane, you have to walk the rest of the way! :-D

I'm cool with that, as long as coastal residents only use one lane of 49 to evacuate through Hattiesburg. Get caught outside your lane, and you have to walk the rest of the way.

jmb

08-24-2007, 09:21 AM

For any of you who ever travel to the coast...

http://www.sunherald.com/278/story/127117.html

I vote that they put in a lane strictly for tourists, if you get caught outside the lane, you have to walk the rest of the way! :-D

Not all tourists are bad. :)

dream member

08-24-2007, 09:22 AM

Not all tourists are bad. :)

I got behind some this morning...in the left lane...going about 40! :ohnoes: Makes me crazy! :smt118

dream member

08-24-2007, 09:26 AM

I'm cool with that, as long as coastal residents only use one lane of 49 to evacuate through Hattiesburg. Get caught outside your lane, and you have to walk the rest of the way.

You can suck the fun out of anything can't ya! :) Besides- I was only messing around...the point of the thread was the ARTICLE...not my opinion.

bpitt

08-24-2007, 09:39 AM

They need a lane just for Cruisin' the Coast participants, with NO speed limit, and no ban on burnouts!

bpitt

08-24-2007, 09:39 AM

Better yet, two lanes, that way we could drag race!! Put 'Christmas' trees at every redlight!

dream member

08-24-2007, 09:42 AM

...I give up... :(

fuzzis

08-24-2007, 09:52 AM

I guess it was three? years ago when before the summer institute, I was listening to the news on the coast and the traffic guy on WLOX said, "Now just a reminder for all you tourists out there, please stay in the right lane." Cracked me up. When I got to the SI, during our sacred writing time, I wrote about how it's probably not the tourists. It's probably all the local folks who have yet to figure out that the left lane is NOT a travel lane.

When y'all figure out that concept, then maybe you can whinge about the tourists. :kekeke:

dream member

08-24-2007, 09:55 AM

The traffic lights will be synchronized...that's a plus!!!! I hate hitting one red light after the next!

chaz

08-24-2007, 10:31 AM

I got behind some this morning...in the left lane...going about 40! :ohnoes: Makes me crazy! :smt118

People from Mar'on county aren't tourists.

dream member

08-24-2007, 12:33 PM

People from Mar'on county aren't tourists.

But I never said that...
I'm talking about out of state- who are yall talking about?!?!?

jmb

08-24-2007, 01:10 PM

Being from out-of-state now, I guess I would be considered a tourist, although when I get to southern Mississippi, be it Hattiesburg or the coast, I feel like I'm home. I may drive a little slower than the residents because for one, things have changed a lot since I lived in the area and I don't know the roads, turns, businesses like I used to, and because I care. We came to the coast both summers after Katrina, even skipped Hattiesburg this year because we didn't have time to hit both, but I wanted to see the progress that had been made.

Last year, a church group from here went down for two weeks doing volunteer work helping with the cleanup. They spent their vacation and their own money coming down because they also care and wanted to help. I'm sure these people drove slower than some would like but can you blame them? Most of them had never seen such devastation in their lives even on a small scale, much less what you had down there. They came back with nothing but good to say about the people.

Hopefully when we're down in January (providing my plans pan out), we'll see even more progress. :)

dream member

08-24-2007, 01:16 PM

It wasn't meant to be an insult...I'm sorry everyone took it that way.

But I'm glad everyone checked out the article...

jmb

08-24-2007, 01:25 PM

It wasn't meant to be an insult...I'm sorry everyone took it that way.

But I'm glad everyone checked out the article...

Dream, I didn't take it as an insult. I just wanted to show you "the other side". My heart will always be in Mississippi. :)

dream member

08-24-2007, 01:26 PM

Dream, I didn't take it as an insult. I just wanted to show you "the other side". My heart will always be in Mississippi. :)

Thanks...but every response was about the one line I typed...nothing in response to the article...I don't understand why? What I said at the bottom of the original post was just in fun...the top portion was really to inform anyone interested, since it's something not related to the Pine Belt...didn't want anyone to get on to me for posting about something related to the coast...sorry yall.

jmb

08-24-2007, 01:35 PM

Thanks...but every response was about the one line I typed...nothing in response to the article...I don't understand why? What I said at the bottom of the original post was just in fun...the top portion was really to inform anyone interested, since it's something not related to the Pine Belt...didn't want anyone to get on to me for posting about something related to the coast...sorry yall.

Randi, it does interest me. That's why I mentioned "the progress" in my post. I was impressed with the difference in what I saw in 2007 compared to 2006. Getting 90 back up to par will be great, especially with the synchronized traffic signals.:clap:

fuzzis

08-24-2007, 01:41 PM

Thanks...but every response was about the one line I typed...nothing in response to the article...I don't understand why? What I said at the bottom of the original post was just in fun...

That's the way it works around here, dream. You've done it to people too.

It doesn't mean that it doesn't suck, just that it's what happens.

You can put it out there but you can't control how people are going to respond to you.

jmb

08-24-2007, 01:44 PM

You can put it out there but you can't control how people are going to respond to you.
Isn't that the truth! :)

pEtAl mIsFiT

08-24-2007, 01:47 PM

:-)

dream member

08-24-2007, 01:55 PM

That's the way it works around here, dream. You've done it to people too.

It doesn't mean that it doesn't suck, just that it's what happens.

You can put it out there but you can't control how people are going to respond to you.

Well if I've done that to anyone, I'm sorry...I don't think I'd do it intentionally...it's a mean world around here isn't it.

....I'm trying so hard to be nice.....

JimmyJam

08-24-2007, 06:13 PM

You can put it out there but you can't control how people are going to respond to you.

I put it out there all the time. Usually, people react in a horrified manner.....:laugh:

fuzzis

08-24-2007, 06:14 PM

I put it out there all the time. Usually, people react in a horrified manner.....:laugh:

I've heard that about you...:kekeke:

JimmyJam

08-25-2007, 09:58 AM

I've heard that about you...:kekeke:

People spread all kinds of vicious, horrible stories about my uncouth actions, lack of empathy, dysfunctional personality, and overall social undesirability. Unfortunately, these stories are all true. :cry:

I would mention that at least PI and Bluesman are my friends, but that simply drags me further down into the gutter....:laugh:

fuzzis

08-25-2007, 10:46 AM

I would mention that at least PI and Bluesman are my friends, but that simply drags me further down into the gutter....:laugh:

Who do you think I heard it from? :laugh:

JimmyJam

08-25-2007, 12:06 PM

If you heard it from Bluesman, you must have a "Redneck to English Translation Dictionary"....

Bluesman

08-25-2007, 01:13 PM

I put it out there all the time. Usually, people react in a horrified manner.....:laugh:
people just aren't used to seeing those large breasts on a man Jimmy, that's all. Don't take it personal.:bowrofl:

JimmyJam

08-25-2007, 01:28 PM

people just aren't used to seeing those large breasts on a man Jimmy, that's all. Don't take it personal.:bowrofl:

If I can get this picture to post....

http://www.myhattiesburg.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12549/thumb_manmade2.jpg (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-921)

Bluesman

08-25-2007, 01:39 PM

If I can get this picture to post....

http://www.myhattiesburg.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12549/thumb_manmade2.jpg (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-921)
Good God man! Put a bra on for crying out loud.:smt101

JimmyJam

08-25-2007, 01:53 PM

Good God man! Put a bra on for crying out loud.:smt101

Here you go...

http://www.myhattiesburg.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12549/thumb_manmade4.jpg (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-922)

politically incorrect

08-25-2007, 07:33 PM

Uh, fellas...:offtopic:

politically incorrect

08-25-2007, 07:36 PM

Bluesman

08-25-2007, 07:44 PM

:smt098 and I quote your OWN WORDS.... Back at cha brother! :bowrofl:
Uh, fellas...:offtopic:

politically incorrect

08-25-2007, 07:47 PM

Bluesman, don't let JimmyJam be a bad influence on you. Oh, that's right. Too late. :evil:

dream member

08-25-2007, 09:25 PM

Back to the, ahem...subject of this thread. I had to go to Jackson today for a meeting. It seems that ever since I was a kid - and that was a LONG time ago - the highways in Jackson are always under construction. Good Lord. Do they ever get finished with a project and give it a rest before starting another. The worst area is always 49 South from about Richland up to the exit to get on 55. That stretch of road should be paved with gold by now, as much money as has been spent on it in the past 30 years. I hate driving in Jackson just because of all the construction!

Driving down the dreaded Hwy today- I've noticed where they have actually recently filled in bad spots. It's HORRIBLE to drive that road in Biloxi, when it's raining. The flooding is so bad! In Pass Christian - it's always bad; I don't know why they haven't worked on it there.