Funny (not as in ha-ha!) that I encountered the front-page article in the Cook County News-Herald April 13, 2019, about “County commissioners hear MnDOT rumble strip presentation” and the timing of that article.
As I was heading to Grand Marais the other day and then back again to our home here in Hovland I was hoping I wouldn’t go into the ditch and/or run into another vehicle and/ or blow a tire or rip out the bottom of my small car from playing dodge the potholes and pavement cracks. This can get pretty interesting when the highway is also icy and slippery. Especially if the deer are out and about down by the highway, as well.
I also found myself in the dicey position of playing the game “Where do I focus my eyes?” Mainly on the road up ahead? On the shoulders and tree line watching out for kamikaze deer? Or, at the pavement immediately in front of my vehicle playing dodge the potholes and ever-gaping cracks?
All these past winter months (and now this time of year) if one drives a larger vehicle than mine they could put a container of heavy cream in the back end of said vehicle and make butter due to the frost heaves in the pavement caused by moisture getting under the pavement through cracks and holes in the pavement thus creating heaving from the ice and frost.
So, let me get this straight. Now MnDOT wants to break up the pavement with more openings…for our…safety?
Personally, I could think of a much better use of taxpayer money on our highway for our safety. I don’t see much money growing on those trees on the other side of those shoulders here along the highway in our neck of the woods.
Mary Jo Flack
Hovland
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