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Monday, March 10, 2014

The Price of Progress ???

 
This
The Ohio River Bridges Project is certainly needed but nonetheless is creating major traffic headaches for local residents. My everyday excursions across the river are limited now as I near total retirement, but I really feel for those who have to make that journey daily on these construction laden roadways. I guess it's progress , though for the next 6 years it will be a major pain in the ass. Jeffersonville is already straggling behind in improvements to the traffic infra-structure and the added delays from bridge construction  make it a nightmare in almost any direction you travel across or through town.
Or this ???

  Holman Ln. once a sleepy narrow country road has now become the main through fare for those heading to Clarksville and all the retail development it provides, and Holman's is totally inadequate to handle the increase. The industrial explosion at River Ridge has made traveling Hwy. 62 a journey now with only more traffic to come with the continual growth at River Ridge. Ahhh isn't progress great !!  I'm glad I'll soon be sitting in my boat on Hardy Lake waiting to pull in a big bluegill, having avoided all the mess by leaving at 4:30 am. Quiet solitude in the early morning miles away from the so called progress...... ain't that grand...

13 comments:

  1. Yea Holman's Lane is a nightmare most of the day. What the city do they widened and improved Hamburg Pk. putting in turning lane where there is no place to turn into. Hamburg Pike probably has 1/10 the traffic of Holmans go figure

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  2. Big G. HT will take you fishing and you'll love it nothing like being on the lake right at dawn...

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  3. Yeah Anon. I agree , I 'd like to know who the idiots where that determined Hamburg Pk. needed widening before Holman Ln.

    I also noticed they put turning lanes where there's no place to turn into ingenious. You can see what we're up against here in Jeff

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  4. Crappie ought'r be move'n good bout now....

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  5. Holmans iz obsolete fer the day'ly traffic 'ese days.....an' bridge in'a E/End......should'a been'ere 30 yr ago.....If had the $$ it's cost in'a last 40 yrs NOT be'n able ta access Prospect...Oldham Co...upper R/Road area....I could retire....LOL....
    (an' at's no shizz.....)

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  6. Right Dude, never fished much for crappie at Hardy always go after them big bluegill that's in there.

    Ever fished there ??

    Also have caught some nice channel cat along the dam...

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  7. You're right Dude the east end bridge is needed badly if they had spent less time talkin it could have been built 20 years ago...

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  8. ?.....Ain't had a line in'a water fer...?...aWHILE,haha...got a buttload rods/reels...couple'a 9' catfish rigs....USE ta have bassboat.....been yrs back. taylorsville was the place round here close fer Crappie....NICE 1's...they introduced Hybrid Stripers back in...?...late 80's....caught few nice 1's...had ta be ?.....20"long,nears can r'member....an' 5 count limit back'na day.... LIKE'd Taylorsville....deep banks,channels, LOT'a treetops/stickups, an' could still be in 20-30' water......Crappie HEAVEN ;)

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  9. Yeah on'a bridge.....person'ly...I think McDaniels got the mentalty..."I'm gonna put a END ta this shizz....an' show'em jus' how BAD we need this damn bridge..."

    (Sherman-Minton shutdown..)

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  10. I always assumed the Sherman Minton closure was a "House of Cards" or Christie type move.

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  11. " hoosiertaxpayer said...
    Yeah Anon. I agree , I 'd like to know who the idiots where that determined Hamburg Pk. needed widening before Holman Ln. "

    It was Mayor Tom, it was part of his road to benefit the asphalt plant and the quarry.

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  12. Yeah should have remembered that, like I said idiot(s) and Galligan more than qualifies for that distinction.....

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