No Rick,
They are just reminders of the old corduroy roads i.e. cut down trees placed
side by side, to cross over the boggy soil. That's why the Plank Road
Brewery is so named.
Larry Smith
Chester, VA
Just up I-95 from the Jerusalem and Boyden Plank Roads in Petersburg. VA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Grant" <rickgrant@telus.net>
To: <lro@koan.team.net>
Sent: 13 December, 2002 05:54 PM
Subject: Re: [lro] The shame. A Series coffee cup holder
>
> Peter Ogilvie wrote
> >or pothole. Still, our roads are nothing like the
> >expansion strips on Michigan Freeways. Those strips
> >are bad enough to launch you and the cup completely
> >out of the Rover.
>
> The first time that I drove along those Michigan roads I wondered whether
> there had been some huge corrupt construction scam at work building
> substandard roads. But over the years they haven't changed and there seem
> to be a lot more of them. On one of my trips across Canada by way of the
> Northern Tier States I was pulling a small utility trailer. just a little
> thing with perhaps three hundred pounds of stuff total. When I hit those
> Michigan expansion strips I thought the trailer would rip the back end of
> the Subaru it was jerking and leaping so much. I wonder what they do to
> large transport trailers?
>
> The only other place I have seen such horrible expansion joints is the
> Trans Canada ring road around Winnipeg. They were (are?) as bad as
> Michigan's with the added feature of nasty frost heaves.
>
> By the way, I phoned my wife at work and told her the coffee holder
> story. Her response was, "I thought they were against The Old Land Rover
> Law. Serves you right."
>
>
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>
> Rick Grant
>
>
> International Strategic Communications and Media Relations
> Calgary Alberta
> www.rickgrant.com
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