Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
I-69 Update: Texarkana Has It Backwards
If you've had some occasion to look at Google Maps' street view, then you'll always get the opportunity to see places and things right there on your computer screen. And such is the case with roads. Sometimes, I look at little things like signs.
The subject at hand is Interstate 369 in Texarkana, which is a leg of the Interstate 69 nationwide transportation network. It still lacks some of the signage needed for interstate highways, particularly on the feeder roads and side street approaches, but the TXDOT district (Atlanta, TX) did add something to further bring the road to interstate grade. I-369 now has mile markers. That's a good thing, and that's part of the inevitable renaissance of the new road in West Texarkana and how the ebb and flow will go on Ike Eisenhower's wonderful discovery.
But there's a problem.
The mile markers are going in the wrong order on the highway.
They put mile marker 110 south of mile marker 108, putting 108 close to Interstate 30, which, for now, is at the highway's northern terminus point. You see, mile marker 0 is supposed to be some 110-plus miles south of Texarkana, in the town of Tenaha, at where I-69 will meet 369. On a north-south road, the mile markers have to go in ascending order.
Oh, there's time for the folks there to fix it, as the highway is only a three-mile stretch for the moment, but why in the cornbread world did they not realize it earlier, when all the planning had gone into that?? What was the thinking?
Still, though, any progress for that highway is progress. I'm just anxious to see the extension and the full route unfold.
The subject at hand is Interstate 369 in Texarkana, which is a leg of the Interstate 69 nationwide transportation network. It still lacks some of the signage needed for interstate highways, particularly on the feeder roads and side street approaches, but the TXDOT district (Atlanta, TX) did add something to further bring the road to interstate grade. I-369 now has mile markers. That's a good thing, and that's part of the inevitable renaissance of the new road in West Texarkana and how the ebb and flow will go on Ike Eisenhower's wonderful discovery.
But there's a problem.
The mile markers are going in the wrong order on the highway.
They put mile marker 110 south of mile marker 108, putting 108 close to Interstate 30, which, for now, is at the highway's northern terminus point. You see, mile marker 0 is supposed to be some 110-plus miles south of Texarkana, in the town of Tenaha, at where I-69 will meet 369. On a north-south road, the mile markers have to go in ascending order. Oh, there's time for the folks there to fix it, as the highway is only a three-mile stretch for the moment, but why in the cornbread world did they not realize it earlier, when all the planning had gone into that?? What was the thinking?
Still, though, any progress for that highway is progress. I'm just anxious to see the extension and the full route unfold.
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