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For over a week I 40 in NC has been blocked by a rock slide, clearing time has gone from 3 weeks to 4 or more months.
For a 100 miles that I know of there are numerous signs saying Rt. 40 closed at exit 20 and give directions for detour with a lot of signs when you get to the turn for the detour, yet people are still going on and when the are stopped at the barriers the say, "My GPS didn't tell me there was a rock slide." Did they miss all the signs saying so, or did they think the DOT was wrong about needing to detour you don't want to try to find your way around, these are narrow mountain roads and a small town that cannot take the traffic.
Worst still some drivers are going around the barriers only to find they cannot get through. The are now going to issue a Federal summons for this infraction, I don't know what that is but it will cost them $150.00 because of their stupid stunt.
Of course a lot of people don't carry maps anymore or don't know how to read them so they could not look to find out where exit 20 was or look to see where the detour would take them.
For a 100 miles that I know of there are numerous signs saying Rt. 40 closed at exit 20 and give directions for detour with a lot of signs when you get to the turn for the detour, yet people are still going on and when the are stopped at the barriers the say, "My GPS didn't tell me there was a rock slide." Did they miss all the signs saying so, or did they think the DOT was wrong about needing to detour you don't want to try to find your way around, these are narrow mountain roads and a small town that cannot take the traffic.
Worst still some drivers are going around the barriers only to find they cannot get through. The are now going to issue a Federal summons for this infraction, I don't know what that is but it will cost them $150.00 because of their stupid stunt.
Of course a lot of people don't carry maps anymore or don't know how to read them so they could not look to find out where exit 20 was or look to see where the detour would take them.