Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The Darkness Thrives

 A reader complained to MDOT about the lack of interstate lighting.  Check out MDOT's response:

You are correct. This section of lighting has been out a long time and will not be repaired in the near future. Thieves stole all the wire out of the ground and stole all components that control the lights. MDOT went in and spent thousands of dollars to repair and within a month it was stolen again. The Department has ask for help from law enforcement to catch these individuals but nothing was done. The Department can not afford to replace the wiring to have it stolen again. That is not good for the tax payers who's money is a part of all repairs and work performed by MDOT. We hope to find a solution to this problem soon.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who's....ask for help...was done

Anonymous said...

Good lord at the grammatical and spelling errors in that response.

Anonymous said...

Welcome to Crackistan.

Anonymous said...

Just flush the toilet already.

Jackson is garbage.

Anonymous said...

@1:33
The grammar is on par with WLBT/WAPT/WJTV.

Anonymous said...

At least MDOT replies. The mayor does not.

MDOT has always responded to my inquiries too.
Not much they can do, and at least they are not trying to keep throwing good money after bad.

Another thing Mayor could learn from them.

Anonymous said...

I can only assume that they are talking about the section of I-20 thru Jackistan between Hwy 18 and Terry Road. Not only is it the darkest stretch of interstate anywhere in the Bold New City, but it's the roughest. People traveling thru Jacktown must think that they have entered some third world country. God help them if they have to get off the interstate for gas or something. It's truly pitiful, and the city and state ought to be ashamed.

Anonymous said...

Maybe gumflapper can speak about this at the next "What Doesn't Work" conference.

Anonymous said...

The inability to "Protect and Serve", ascends to another level of incompetence. A major thoroughfare cannot have functioning lights -- needed for safety and security -- because of unbridled theft. SMDH

Pappy Odaniel said...

What an ignorant response. Lighting is an enormous safety issue. People will get killed for lack of it. They could do a self-contained photovoltaic installation that doesn’t require miles of wiring, but that would be outside of the mindless MDOT way of doing things the same way they’ve always been done. Much easier to simply say screw Jackson and woe be unto some poor soil who comes along through there on a dark rainy night. And before some MDOT genius starts stammering about federal highway standards, state aid money or some other typical response...the first thing all of this takes is someone with enough of give a damn to make sure the roads under their supervision are are as safe as possible regardless of the obstacles. But no, will stick with screw Jackson, serves them right devil may care.

Anonymous said...

1:33. i’m sure MDOT has more important things to do than be twitter grammar police. that being said-they aren’t just throwing our tax dollars away by keep fixing the lights. and jpd has more to worry about than thieves.

let’s start with murderers, rapists, and carjackers.

Anonymous said...

My God at the grammar police here. Other than having said "ask" rather than "asked", the only other issues might be combining "can not" into "cannot" and "tax payer" into "taxpayer".

This doesn't appear to be a formal letter, but rather an email response. Could it be written better? Probably so, but who's email comments couldn't, especially after autocorrect gets thru (granted, maybe I should have said through) with them?

The issue here is that folks are on the interstates, in possibly in view of hundreds or thousands, and stealing the underground wire, the wire within the pole, and fixtures. Its important to keep the main thing the main thing.

Anonymous said...

"Anonymous said...
Good lord at the grammatical and spelling errors in that response.

June 1, 2022 at 1:33 PM"

Spelling errors? Do tell.

Anonymous said...

They could do a self-contained photovoltaic installation that doesn’t require miles of wiring
Please tell me anywhere this actually works. Hugh Ward Blvd in Rankin County has them and they suck. It’s like a bunch of those solar walkway lights which emit an unnatural white light which destroys any night vision, while somehow simultaneously illuminating nothing.

Anonymous said...

Spelling errors:

Who's = who is; should be "whose."

Taxpayers is one word, not two.

Cannot can technically be spelled as two words, but it is by far the minority approach.

Krusatyr said...

Isn't stealing from a Federal Interstate highway a federal crime?

Anonymous said...

Telling ya, Organized Crime works. I also say, let them lay where they fall as a reminder.

Anonymous said...

It’s Jackson, no one cares about Jackson, not that anywhere else is better in this state.

Anonymous said...

2:26 - are people "getting killed" on the thousands of miles of interstate and regular highways in the state that have no lights? I don't think so. Yes, the lights are a great addition where they exist, but they are not a necessary item for highways. And your fantastic idea of using a "self-contained photovoltaic installation" isn't a solution - besides not providing reasonable lighting those pesky little federal highway requirements are something that have to be addressed, since they pay for 90% of the cost of building and maintaining these roads. And if one ignores them as you suggest in this one area, it would jeaprodize the funding for all the highways and interstates in the state.

But,thanks for your suggestion - I'm sure it will receive appropriate consideration. In the meantime, I worry about all the folks driving on the unlit hundreds of miles of interstates that not within a city limits during rain since you think with those roads being unlit, they are all going to die.

Anonymous said...

@ 2:26 "They could do a self-contained photovoltaic installation that doesn’t require miles of wiring" So I take it you are the photovoltaic sales rep for the area???

Anonymous said...

Long live the spelling/grammar police.

Anonymous said...

That response letter should be saved for the right lawyer in case anyone wants to litigate, right?

Anonymous said...

@2:26, they have these newfangled things on automobiles, now, called headlights. It's time for you to upgrade.

Anonymous said...

My neighbor’s from California drove to Gulfport from Hattiesburg on Hwy 49. She commented that we are driving in the dark! I drive that part of Hwy often at night and never really thought about it!

We are literally driving in the dark. Can only see 300- 400 feet in front of car. If a tree or 18 wheeler tire was in the Hwy we would be severely hurt or Killed!

Anonymous said...

Wow


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