Bonnie And Clyde Jacknuts
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by The Film Geek
From what I read in a recent Charleston (WV) Gazette news article, Melissa A. Brown and her half-brother Jeremy didn’t plan out the escape route they used after robbing a local bank very well.
Mrs. Brown–who apparently took the day off from her job as a teacher at Stonewall Jackson Middle School to rob the First Sentry Bank in Barboursville– must not have realized what we Huntingtonians know agonizingly well:
Each and every summer, there is major interstate construction near Hal Greer Boulevard. So congested is the area that traffic, generally, comes to a standstill for miles. After driving into that mess after the hold-up, the Browns were caught like a fly in a spider-web.
Or more accurately, they were caught like a red Chevrolet Cavalier in a seasonal construction nightmare.
Interstate construction sites: the latest technology in law enforcement!
I bet there were something like 10 HPD cops waiting for them at that Wendy’s on Troy Brown Way.
Why is it that I64 is always under continuous construction between 29th St and Kenova?
It’s been going of for years.
I64 is probably in worse shape between 29th and Kenova than anywhere else along its WV route. The biggest problem is the terrain. Very hilly and shot through with creeks underneath. This leads to slight shifting and that slight shifting leads to large problems in the roadbed. Nothing really dangerous, just pestiferous. So, rather than filling, they tried bridging all the valleys. The area is one where the sun disappears early in the day and in the winter the roadways freeze and thaw freeze and thaw and break up the surface. So it needs resurfacing practically every summer. And the constant heavier use of road salt to break the ice doesn’t help the steel framework of the bridges, either.
Most of the problem could have been prevented by keeping the road in the valley through Huntington, but we all know how that went. And that is why the constant maintenance problem around the Huntington area of the interstate.