The stoning of VDOT!

[hattriq27]

:mad:

Ok so who is up for going with me to the VDOT Main offices to see Philip Shucet (http://virginiadot.org/infoservice/news/is-newsctr-bio-shucet.asp) ?

Lemme splain why, I live in No. VA, this winter VDOT put down some "stuff" to help with ice and snow. I haven't really driven the Z3 due to bad weather. Yesterday it was nice, I am zippin down the toll road, top down, headed for a meeting and I keep hearing what sounds like small stones just peppering the car by the thousands. Then as I get around other cars this crap starts hitting me in the face. Small stones or something, tons of them. They are hitting the car in such large numbers it sounds like someone is just standing there with handfuls of gravel and throwing it at the car.

Then today, same thing on some side streets. A bazillion (if thats a number) of these little itty bitty orangish pebbles are just peppering the car up and down the road. So many that they are now collecting in the cupholder I had left open on the way to work.

how can someone knowingly put something like this on a highway? Are they insane?

WTF! I wanna demand a new paint job as I am sure I will be just sick when I polish the car on Saturday.

My plan was to get a truck, go shovel some of these orange pebbles from the highway (there are piles of it everywhere next to the curbs) into the back. Drive to VDOTS offices and stand out there throwing it at this dudes car till I get arrested.




Who's with me!!!!!! :firedevil

[count_schemula]

Uncool to the max!

Take it easy though, my general impression of Virginia is that it's not very hard to get arrested.

[killeen_john]

Out here in Northwest NJ they use cinder on the road for traction purposes over ice or snow. It looks like small pebbles or kitty litter. Apparently, it's better for the environment as it stays solid, is reusable, and doesn't disolve into water so it won't pollute our lakes, rivers, and streams like salt does. However, in addition to chipping paint it is dangerous for convertible and motorcycle operators. The sides of our roads are littered with this crap until the town comes around with the street sweepers to pick it up. Hopefully, they will be cleaning up soon as I refuse to put the top down on these roads with this stuff laying around.

[2BUCOUP]

And speaking of VDOT and the wonderful roads around here, I had the exceedingly bad luck about an hour ago of watching an opposite direction truck bounce through a huge pothole and launch a rock the size of my fist out the back of it which smashed headlong into my windshield. Looks like I'll be calling the glass shop tomorrow, it's busted big time.

Kurt

[hattriq27]

This all got me thinking last night on the way home (as I listened to pebbles bouncing off my car). Since VDOT choose this stuff and now I need a new paint job, aren't they responsible? I may actually call my Insurance company because their decision has destroyed the front end of my car, chipped the glass on my windshield and as killeen_john said, it is downright dangerous. When I say I was getting hit in the face, it was painful and when it first happened I swerved all over the road. I couldn't imagine being on a bike.

[surfacewound]

And just think, your very own tax dollars contributed to the destruction of your paint job. Talk about insult to injury. ;)

[E36DJ]

I need new paint too.. can I go with you? (little chips on the front bumper.. ;) )
I still need to get them back for the potholes!!

[hattriq27]

ah yeah you are up in ashburn, spend many a night on route 7 dodging potholes. Got stopped about 2 weeks back by a Loudon County Sherriff cause as he put it, "you were weaving all over the road. You been drinking or is there a problem." My response, "Sorry officer, not drinking, I was dodging potholes so I don't have to spend a few grand to replace my tires or suspension. Wouldn't have to do it if the roads weren't so bad." The best was his reply, "I feel ya. I have a '58 Vette, won't even bring it out here. Do me a favor and at least try to stay in your lane. Have a good night."

[Mark85]

get those chips filled with some touch up paint, my car is a 93 and has tons of chips on it, needless to say some of the chips are rusted

E36DJ, i may have asked you already but are you still livin in ashburn? where in ashburn, ive never seen your car