Amazing Timelapse

Jul 26, 2016 4:37 PM

WayToLowToGetHigh

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Wait for it...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is not gif

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cal-trans workers are the best in bed because they taKE FUCKING FOREVER.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That loop

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Much faster than in my town.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Me

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why did you speed it up?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I see what you did there...........and enjoyed every second. +1

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Portland's in the midst of its annual "seasonal projects" right now and this hits wayyyy too fucking close to home.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My town has it's own 4 seasons. Winter, still winter, more winter, and construction. And nothing ever gets done.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You must be from Quebec ? Hi there !

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Slower you slut !!!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Must be Pennsylvania.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Haaaaaa. I waited. I hate myself.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

This is fake. Real construction doesnt wven go half as fast as this. Nice @OP

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How did you find out that I'm actually a govt. contractor giving a false persona of how fast construction is!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is priceless.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I agree. The city ran out of funding again so +4 years to paving the other side of the road.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I waited too long for the gif to load.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You are not alone. Watched waaaaay to long

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Seems about right.

9 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 1

Looks a little sped up to me, just sayin.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This image needs cost numbers at the top shooting through the roof for no reason...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A perfect loop! Bravo!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Best gif I've seen in a long time.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I-75 worst than any other. swears.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I see construction all the time but no one is ever there its just done one day out of no-where.

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Sounds like Alabama road construction. The work's done in two days, the work zone speed limit signs stay up for the next year.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I agree...FAKE. There isn't a city worker carrying one piece of paper at a time to the trash truck.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bastard. I raged against my crappy internet for whole minutes before I figured it out. Well played.

9 years ago | Likes 200 Dislikes 4

No you didn't.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Man, and you just signed up for this, too.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I watched it for 5 minutes...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You can see the file type of an image at the bottom left corner when you hover your mouse over it. This is .jpg. Those aren't animated.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Welcome to the club...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's how it is in Quebec too! :D

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sauf que nous y aurait aussi des photos radars avec des pancartes 50 km/h...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sigh... oui c'est vrai

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fake. No guys leaning on shovels for extended periods.

9 years ago | Likes 509 Dislikes 2

I-4? Yup I-4

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My city sets up fake construction zones just so they can lower the speed limit and charge double for speeding tickets.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

or some guy in high viz on the phone while eating a sandwich

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

They on lunch

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

9 am lunch.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Whoever puts the cones down should do it, he's a legend among his people

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's in the contract, shovel handles cannot touch the ground.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your city has guys? Luxury!

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

We have one mentally challenged fellow that they let drive the backhoe. He breaks water mains a couple times a year. Small towns are weird.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or 5 guys standing around watching 1 guy dig a hole

9 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

I know this is kinda a running joke but seriously I see this every single day. Every fucking day. Today was only 4 guys though

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One laborer and five supervisors

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Seems accurate to me. It's always just a bunch of orange cones and signs saying "work ahead" with no one around.

9 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 0

I love when the speed limit signs are lower than normal, but have small print saying "if workers are present."

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Same here, but it is because they do the work at night, usually. It's cooler and less traffic

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Fun fact: in Rhode Island, it's illegal to do road work at night.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What? That's the opposite of sensible.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Really!?!?!? Why? Safety regs or something?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's because they didn't have lights (like these: http://www.3benefitsof.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/light-tower.jpg), IIRC.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Construction on I-35 is a lot slower than this.

9 years ago | Likes 154 Dislikes 1

the first time i went out on 35, it was under construction for several miles. every time i go out there it's under construction. Did the

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

construction ever start or is it just leftover from never actually finishing 35 in the first place?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I-35E is still under construction. I can't wait until 2055 for it to be done.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a Texan, can confirm.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I35 in Minnesota is terrible!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Live off 35w. Can confirm.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oklahoma here, can confirm I-35 still under eternal construction in Norman.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What's up Norman!! I'm not looking forward to football season with this construction.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You stole my comment.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm 26. Highway 290 in Houston has been under construction my entire life.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

I was headed from Clear Lake to Austin via Beltway 8/Hwy 290 Saturday. Was diverted TWICE! I dread that stretch.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I-75 in Cincinnati. Always under construction

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I lived in Dallas and went to uni near San Antonio and I can conform this.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Going south on I-35 from Dallas is just as bad as going north on I-35 from Dallas. Just stay off of I-35 (if only it were that simple).

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Take 281.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Dallas dweller here, I-45 seems always under construction these days.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

The entire city of Dallas is under construction right now, and it's infuriating.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

All too true :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

whooo Dallas.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

For realsies denton, for realsies

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I-35 in San Antonio is HELL!!!

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

SA is catching up to Austin I-35. Stop . . . Stay stopped . . . keep stopping . . . now go 3'. Repeat until RRock where the go is 6'.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I havent been north of the loop in like 6 months. It'd be easier to get to the moon than Heritage Trace!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Holy shit, fellow dallas people. 635 was bad between 75 and 35 for a while, too.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I-35 in Kansas is my personal hell.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Mine too...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I-35 and I-435 in kc are both nightmares

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It's best when you have to drive on both to get to school...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Live near the I-35 & I-435 interchange. Fucking hell to drive through.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm not alone! I live right by the 435 and quivera exit

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Howdy neighbor!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

75/121 junction isn't much better

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I too live in Fort Worth

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 2

Wichita

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Representin' the East Side over here!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Me as well. 35 is quite awful, if I need to go to South fort Worth I just take haltom to the lower portion of 35. :/

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live in San Marcos.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Same.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Round rock. I-35 is hell

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dragons fly together ????

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Round Rock is its own special kind of hell.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Poor Illinois ran out of money again

9 years ago | Likes 1000 Dislikes 4

can confirm, we broke as fuck

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Pennsylvania is probably worse.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Chicago is a shit show of construction everywhere.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wisconsin too... takes like a whole year to dig, fix, and fill a small 3 foot x 3 foot hole...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They're never gonna finish I90

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As someone who lives in Illinois, yup.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fucking I-90 will never get done.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

One of the few reasons i moved to the neighbor to the east

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

True that. Went to Illinois a month ago and blew a strut from the crappy roads. Though Indiana isn't much better.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I have lived in Illinois my whole life. The I-90 has been under construction going on 19 years now.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Is it pronounced ih-lih-nwa or ih-lih-noyz ?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which part? I dont take it that often but I cant recall encountering contruction from Ohare to downtown.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought it was like this in all states, a vacation to Florida made interstates look like art, no potholes at all

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Winters kill roads quickly because the repeated reezing and thawing expands and cracks concrete/asphalt.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The best part is there's nothing to identify IL in the picture but you are still right :(

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

*sigh* yep.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think you mean Unfortunate Illinois bigwigs ran out with the money again

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

My town is literally at a stand still as far as moving around because of traffic. Every road in or out is under construction

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Trapped! Trapped in Waukegan I tell you!

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

32yrs myself.. 32yrs of massive potholes

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's not "running out of money" so much as "can't decide on a budget."

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a civil engineer in Illinois ... :(

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

RIP.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Welcome to the club. At least I'm on the border of Iowa so the work keeps coming in.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yay Iowa.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It took 3 months to get my license plates.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They have to put that money in their governor's prison commissary.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I live in Chicago and the SO lived in wheeling. The exit to get to her house was under construction for like 3-4 years!!!

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

It would piss me off to pay tolls in Chicago area and then have the roads not up to par or continuously under construction.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It sucks when your state tax is $10.25 and the roads look like the surface of the moon.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The Taylor exit on 90/94 has been under construction for 3 years so far. Doesnt look anywhere near completed.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yup, I asked one of the two construction workers I saw and he explained that they works low on purpose because they can stretch out the pay.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Makes sense

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The bridge on i55 by arsenal and the off and on ramp for arsenal road was god awful slow. That made my drive to work hellish

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Now the bridge on Rt 6 and 55 is under construction, it's hell there now.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

ROUTE 59 ANYONE?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've lived in Tampa for 12 years. Bruce B. Downs has been under construction the entire time.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fun fact, they will start work without the money to finish hoping to get bonds for money... rather than actually budgeting appropriately.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They have actually stripped healthy sections of road here in order to effect upcoming bond votes... pisses me off.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They never run out of time for Matt Damon though.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Out of state person: "You don't have a budget?" Me: "I can't even spell budget" But that's probably because of the poor education system.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Illinois has the 8th best education system in the country.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yikes. Not where I went. Guess it's just luck of the draw.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kind of is. Very polarized. Either a very good school or a very bad school, usually.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*spent out of money

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh gwad I'm not the only one who looked at it and thought IL.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

However, Ohio always has more roadwork before the current projects get done

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You mean Louisiana right?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I-94 in Milwaukee isn't planned to be completed until 2021. They started this reconstruction in 2009.

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

How the fuck?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Driving past the Pettit is the bane of my existence.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Theres 5 seasons in Illinois. Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and one that lasts forever; construction.

9 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 1

Close. There are actually 4 seasons; Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's only two seasons: Winter and Construction

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The best part is after they finish they wait a month then tear it back up

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I thought there were only two, winter season and construction season? (and sometimes they're the same season)

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I think you're thinking of Michigan.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Nah, Buffalo, NY is what you're thinking of. ;-)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I dont think you people have been to chicago

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Been here 21 years and there's NEVER no construction

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There are only two seasons here, winter and construction

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait, when did we have money?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I met a guy in Alabama who was from Illinois. He said it perfectly: Illinois is a great state to be FROM.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

That's crazy, my dad is in Alabama (originally from IL) and says that all the time. O.o

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live in AL. I'll put our stretch of I-20/59 from Tuscaloosa to the MS state line up against anyone who says their state's roads suck.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hell, I-20 near the Georgia state line literally killed someone several years ago.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I-74 bridge anyone? Iowa's ready but Illinois isn't!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That is what I was thinking when I wrote that.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Galesburg here.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And they just keep throwing money at that shit heap instead.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Illinois is too busy being relevant.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Recently moved from the cities to FL. So do not miss that disaster freaking bridge. They're still not done?!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't know but the bottleneck sucks going into Bettendorf or Moline. Either way I hate that bridge every year.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Especially when people get in accidents on the bridge

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Where do you live in Florida that there's no construction? I live next to Tampa and it's been worked on my whole life

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So I drive from Punta Gorda to Venice every day, but that construction doesn't even compare to the disaster the 1-74 bridge is.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I lived there for 4.5 years, the never ever ever finished working on the road outside of my work.

9 years ago | Likes 143 Dislikes 0

Did you work off of La Grange Rd in Orland? That road has been worked on for years. I don't think it will ever be complete.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I used to work at Marcus off of orland and quit because of the traffic orland has

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We've had a road near my house under construction since I was six. I'm eighteen...

9 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 0

For the 22 years I've lived there I've never once driven on I90 without construction.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Illinois native here. All of this is accurate.

9 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

At least you guys get toll money to invest in that. Consider other states who don't even have the money to do that much

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

It all stayed in Chicago

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Oh yeah I love paying out the ass in tolls. Also, they are trying to pass legislation for additional income taxes to pay for roads.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

And most of the roads are still garbage in IL, BTW. You don't see the difference on most toll roads for all the money they collect.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Do you really think that money is going back into the roads? It's the most corrupt state. Like, objectively.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0