Tunnel Work Will Continue

why can't the state road crews inspect these tunnels?a half mil seems steep just for inspection work.

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Mike, I agree. The WVDOH employs a cadre of engineers. Why does the DOH farm their work out instead of using the highly skilled (and highly compensated) professionals already on the payroll??

DOH employs Arkansas companies to paint our highway bridges, companies whose entire workforce speak Spanish and have south-of-the-border mailing addresses. Why not redirect the tax money internally and employ our WV men to do these jobs? After all, the highway improvement funds are drawn from the 51-cent-per-gallon gasoline taxes that each West Virginian pays. Our money should stay in WV, not be spirited to some miserable red state and their illegal workforce.

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Keep it the way it is ,Check the checker of sorts, West Virginia would lie about the work done, material used, time involved , would soak the taxpayer as normal and would be cowpath with a hogwallow year-round. Same as the Speedlimit at the Highlands, Ohio(state) will set it and If the County(West Virginia) had anything to do with it it would be 17 mph;

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@Boxerboy: YOUR money to stay in WEST VIRGINIA?!?? There is a 80% Federal Share, and West Virginia was already CAUGHT waiting for the Federal 's 80% to arive before putting in their 20% which was a deductionfrom the 80 % funding and was caught by George Bush in 2003 and took Senator Byrd to court in January 2004. OUR MONEY INDEED!!!

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Boozerboy, "Why does the DOH farm their work"?

Because your local drunken dishonest crooks couldn't pass a drug test and if they COULD, they would steal the taxpayers blind like yokels always have.

The only way to make a buck there is to work for the government and then ***k your neighbor. Glad you like living in that {hell}hole.

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It’s NOT called the MOST Crooked State in America because of its Geographical borders!!

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@WWU. WV is not named the most corrupt state. I believe FL holds that title, with LA close behind. Anyone know where Katherine Harris is these days?

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@wwu Matter of fact, Idaho, Wyoming, South Carolina, VA, all rank in the top ten most corrupt states. You sort of sound like duwhop, sittin on the NR, trashing the area. LOL

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Most interesting, the most corrupt states are all RED. No wonderwhy there!

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so all of the people contracted to inspect these tunnels are up on their drug tests?when was the last time they were checked?here we go again with the drunken drug addicts stereotyping again.didn't we just here this from people in the gas industry?sorry but we're not all drunk or on drugs.

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@wonderwhy: I'm sorry if you believe I’m trashing the State, County, City. I'm Laughing along with the rest of the Nation, Like watching "BUCKWILD" Hahaha "Those CraZykids"!! Hahaha More money than sense; Darrel McGraw stealing 10 million dollars from DHHR, JumpVan with 4-5 masked police officers jumping a collage kid walking out of the River City Ale and busting him in the shins with a mag-light for TakeDown Practice, Lying to Judges and falsifying information to get the numbers up for more funding while locking up anyone insight, refusing to take the stand when accusing a individual of a crime. ALLGOOD&FUNNYTHINGS!!!

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"MY LITTLE TOWN"

The Best of Simon and Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel

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"a collage kid"

"was a deductionfrom"

"would be cowpath"

"with a hogwallow"

"for TakeDown Practice"

WWU.... For God's sake please download a SPELL CHECK and GRAMMAR CHECK program. Your posts are rambling and disjointed, almost unreadable.

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wwu- I know! Pretty disgusting! and WV didn't make the top ten. That was my point! Look at the states that are MORE corrupt! You stated a lie, and I merely pointed it out!

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@GetaClue: You should see the Police reports of stuff I've been charged with. I had to turn them over when asked to maintain our security clearances; if you can read them you can read mine. Sorry though, I was laughing along with speed typing and not wearing a seatbelt at home.

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@wonderwhy: I said "Crooked not Corrupt"

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"Most interesting, the most corrupt states are all RED"

"Chicago and Illinois, Leading the Pack in Corruption Anti-Corruption Report Number 5 February 15, 2012 (Updated April 18, 2012)"

New public corruption conviction data from the U.S. Department of Justice shows the Chicago metropolitan region has been the most corrupt area in the country since 1976. In addition, the data reveal that Illinois is the third most corrupt state in the nation."

"Since 1976, a total of 1828 elected officials, appointees, government employees and a few private individuals have been convicted of public corruption in Illinois – an average of 51 per year. Illinois is surpassed only by California with 2345 convictions (65 per year) and New York with 2522 convictions (70 per year). Rounding out the top ten are (from most convictions to least) Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, D.C., New Jersey and Louisiana."

Chicago the most corrupt area of the country!!! NO WONDERWHY

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@GetaClue is it College Cheese or Cottage Cheese, this could be where that type O (collage kid) derived. I mean typo...LOL

let’s agree to disagree on Ricotta or RICO

You know me helping in the non-combative areas as a support worker: cabbage picker, fuse straightener, shopping list maker, tater peeler, etc...etc..

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In December, 2009, the Federal Highways Administration issued a 700-page tome entitled "Technical Manual for Design and Construction of Road Tunnels", Publication Number FHWA-NHI-10-034, with sections devoted to the design and execution of tunnel repairs. That, in addition to the earlier, 2004, "Highway and Rail Transit Tunnel Maintenance and Rehabilitation Manual", published by the Federal Transit Administration, FTA. Those publications record some core details of the new "first nationwide tunnel management system (TMS)", jointly, as we take it, administered by the FHWA and the FTA. And, they apparently supersede the earlier FHWA Tunnel Repair Manual. Were these Wheeling Tunnel repairs, on a Federal, Interstate highway, at long, long last, and finally, designed, undertaken and completed in compliance with those Federal standards? If not, why not? The earlier efforts, when this paper first started calling the project a "Fiasco", definitely were

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"The earlier efforts, when this paper first started calling the project a "Fiasco", definitely were NOT."! - thanks for cutting us off and making us look like even bigger idiots than we already do, NR.

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expat- I just posted what I read on Fox News. Figures.....I'll have to see if any other news outlet supports their report. LOL

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xpat- but you did support my original stance as WV NOT being the most corrupt! LOL

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Indeed Wonder!

Glad to see WV not high on the list!

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