Face, Meet Egg? 1.07.2008 | 2 Comment(s)

The main story on STLtoday this morning is about the "True Test" for highway 40 arriving today. In it's opening paragraph, the post said the closing of the highway was "providing to be the Armageddon that some had feared"...uh, you mean like the local paper and television stations?

Not that everything is smooth sailing, but the reality of Highway 40's closure has yet to live up to the endless hype the local media has been forcing us to endure for months now. I could not stop laughing (or pulling out my hair) when all the local television stations went on the air at like 4:30 last Monday...to watch the traffic???

"Congestion is heavy, Bob, so we're going to send all our crews out on the roads to get the full, live story."

Maybe I'm apathetic because 40 closing doesn't really affect me...but I was told that the highway's closing would affect everybody...so while I'm going 75 down 44 at 8 a.m., I can't help but wonder, when does Armageddon get here?

By  Digitizdat, at 7:03 PM

No doubt. I also travel down 44 each morning, so I guess I haven't been too affected, but from what I can tell, nothing has really changed, except now the leftmost and rightmost lanes totally suck because you have to drive over drainage grates and partially paved-over rumble strips. Other than that, I still get to work in 20 mins. Credit to the re-striping, I guess.

By  stlmark, at 8:38 AM

This is the biggest non-story since Y2K. And, these local news boobs can't admit they were wrong.