[DeTomaso] New Wheel Shopping

[Thomas Tornblom]

The first time I was in California (1996), and was driving from the SF 
airport to Sunnyvale, I thought I had a flat tire, or that I was about 
to loose a wheel. I was not, it was the I-101.

Thomas

MikeLDrew at aol.com skrev:
> In a message dated 10/10/08 9 43 41, adin at frontier.net writes:
> 
> 
>> Maybe Mike D is spoiled by the norcal pavement that most other places 
>> don't enjoy?
>>
> 
> Our freeway pavement hardly qualifies as such.   I have broken a windshield 
> (!) hitting a sharp lip between different types of pavement on our freeways.
> 
> Our state has more liberal regulations with respect to trucks (the trucking 
> lobby is extremely powerful), and most trucks are doing point-to-point 
> deliveries (as opposed to agricultural states, where the single industry sees loaded 
> trucks just going to a railhead).   Plus, we have a lot of pinkos in our state 
> government who like to raid the state highway fund to fund their own pet 
> social engineering projects, resulting in a chronic shortfall of money.
> 
> The result is highways that look like they should be in Beirut or Baghdad.   
> (As a matter of fact, Iraqi roads are generally much better than ours, IED 
> craters notwithstanding!)
> 
> After years of pleading for relief, the freeway near my house has finally 
> been paved--but they did such a cheap, terrible job that it is just like a 
> washboard; no attempt was made to smooth it out.
> 
> Residents of other states have no idea how fortunate they are in this 
> regard....
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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