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SOUTH CAROLINIANS ARE MORONS

Remember that chart I had up a couple of months ago showing that South Carolinans have no idea what the rules of the road are. (If not, you can find them here.) This comes up again because in the past week, on a 4-lane highway (each direction mind you), I've seen probably an accident a week. And that doesn't include what ever massive pileups that caused me to take 20 minutes to go 3 miles from work to my house on Friday.

There's probably two reasons for this. One: South Carolina drivers are morons. See the above chart.

Two: The roads were designed by SCDOT, quite possibly one of the most inept DOTs in the country. Not the worst, I think PennDOT is at the top of that list. But SCDOT has to be pretty close. Why? Because of the traffic signal timing, and a little thing we like to call Malfunction Junction. Sure there's only like 20 malfunction junctions in the country, but this is the South Carolina version. Or as one comic we saw at the Comedy House remarked: "This is the only exit that puts you back on the highway." Unfortunately, there's no good links to any detailed maps of the interchange. But keep in mind, there are very few interchanges that are as poorly designed as this one.

Anyway, I think my next project is going to be using Google Earth to "fix" Malfunction Junction, at least the way I see it. One step at a time.
posted by Mike at 5:48 PM