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Permalink Reply by S.H.M. on March 11, 2010 at 4:55

I can bet many roads are being hammered. The parish is replacing a small bridge right north to Greenwood (across the tracks) and I have to wonder if the heavy traffic has weakened it.

For the most part, 169 is holding up though.

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Permalink Reply by Checkmateking on March 11, 2010 at 5:04

De Soto will be able to pave their roads with gold.

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Permalink Reply by FXEF on March 11, 2010 at 10:27

CMK, yeah right... tell that to the Police Jury.

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Permalink Reply by Mac Davis on March 12, 2010 at 7:56

That only applies to roads where the local politicians travel a lot or own land, etc.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on March 11, 2010 at 8:59

The roads were never really that great before....

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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on March 11, 2010 at 9:11

I thought my trailer hitch was about to break. But you guys are right, the folks down there aren’t complaining.

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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on March 11, 2010 at 11:18

I know that I joke a lot. But on a serious note, that road is unacceptable to be called a Hwy. Somebody will get hurt sooner than later.

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Permalink Reply by twomule on March 12, 2010 at 6:19

Stonewall-Frierson Road was a joke before the shale, now it's a laughing stock. not only potholes, but the salt trucks make it a potential demolition derby, you take your life in your hands just driving down that cow trail. I won't comment on the questionable quality of some of those salt truck drivers, but I'm sure some of them are blind in one eye, and can't see out the other.

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Permalink Reply by Greedy Landowner on March 12, 2010 at 10:10

I know it will never happen, but they should make them take an alternate route other than Stonewall-frierson. That is a salt truck/school bus head on waiting to happen.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on March 12, 2010 at 19:06

Solution: Get a Hummer, support the local economy. Or get a tank at a government auction. 80)

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Permalink Reply by Etola on March 13, 2010 at 14:51

For the past 2 years, I have been driving on Hwy 5 about 3 times a week to visit my Dad in
S'port and that highway is getting worse by the day. One night right in Keathie it was raining so hard I couldn't see at all and thought I had gone in the ditch because the road was so rough so I just stopped and realized I was in the road. Last summer I traded in my car for a Ford truck so I would feel more competitve with the salt water trucks but have since been torpedoed by flying depris and have a cracked windshield. I was beginning to think the O&G companies had paid off the sheriff departments because in the past year I rarely saw a patrolman, but last week I finally saw a radar just outside of Longstreet and the trucks had slowed down alot that day. I agree about the stonewall road not only about head-on but also getting hit in the rear when you stop for the school bus or another car turning. I keep one eye looking in my rear view mirror on that road. I am expecting the bridge in Logansport to be the next big detour. There is no way that old bridge will hold up to the traffic it gets every day - continuous trucks. Did you catch any fish?

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