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I have been on the road for several days, much of the trip through red states. Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri.
Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee had all their rest area closed except for the tourist information centers.
Saving $$$ would be my guess. These fuckers are running g this country to the ground.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)roads will just fall apart.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)frickin loop - millions of cars - carbon dioxide emissions - no hope/thrust toward solving the problem with some kind of mass transit. It is criminal, in my mind. Everywhere I go here in TX - they are working on roads
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)collecting big bucks!
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)As if cutting maintenance on a rest area or a roadside park is going to save more than a few thousand dollars a year, particularly on the secondary (federal) highways - US 50, US 40, US 36.
But yeah, they went ahead and did it. Pathetic.
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)Site shows them all open except for a handful due to various reasons. I was at one today, myself. On I40 in Smith County.
It was open, clean, and helpful.
Sorry you had a bad trip through my state.
https://www.tn.gov/tdot/topic/maintenance-restareas
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Get the hell out of that red state ASAP!
Mopar151
(9,992 posts)Cut maintainence and repairs first. Once the infrastructure currently in use is barely functioning, long term investment is cut, except for the wildly extravagant.