Comments on: Kellogg built for jokes, not speed

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Pages tagged "mastodon" — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:49:13 +0000

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planet jokes — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:51:26 +0000

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By: Jed

Jed — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:55 +0000

mrbill,
Quite true, quite true! Unfortunately, we had a crackerjack salesman through here a while back that sold the city a 20yr lease on orange cones and they gotta get their money’s worth!

By: mmarlett

mmarlett — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:20:43 +0000

It is the cathedral of our time. As long as we worship at the alter of the god of convenient personal transportation we will continue to build the temple. Don’t want Kellogg construction? Ride a bike.

By: bth

bth — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:05:06 +0000

And in Albuquerque (sp?) they just did the big downtown reconstruction. Yes, the Kellogg project is rediculous - but typical.

By: mrbill

mrbill — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:53:06 +0000

This is the damnedest thing ‘Ive seen in a while. I used to live in Houston and this group would have been run out of town with such a small piss ant project taking so long. My god they just rebuilt 12 lanes on the Katy West freeway (I-10)through West Houston for 17 miles in less time.

By: Predestined

Predestined — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:27:54 +0000

Maybe I should mention that I wasn’t having sex at that time. Good grief, I was only 9 or 10! But I got a pretty good idea of how it was done from the pictures drawn on the girders.

You’re right, Jed, sex wasn’t even taught much at home. I have a very embarrassing story about seeing two coyotes at the Riverside zoo and exlaiming quite loudly to everyone how they were Siamese twins!

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:06:26 +0000

gster,
Actually some of them are escaped prisoners still in their orange jumpsuits and hiding out on the street.

By: bth

bth — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:46:24 +0000

Pre - brings back fond memories of Stone Mountain Georgia …

By: gster

gster — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:28:27 +0000

I thought those orange things were the official State Flower– you see them everywhere! Barrels, huh?

By: greddy2rbo

greddy2rbo — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:11:53 +0000

HMMMM…THE PROJECT DIRECTOR’S NAME IS “MANNY DELAYS?”…NO WONDER! LOL!

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:10:52 +0000

PS. The exams were provided professionally by private contractors on South Broadway.

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:08:20 +0000

Pre,
“Much of my early sex education was learned underneath the overpass on Seneca in the late 50’s and early 60’s”

That was the only place sex ed was available then!

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:02:13 +0000

Reggie,
“Did they have a lot of “road apples” on the red brick Kellogg back in the day?”

No, but there was a lot of tar and concrete to clean off! The contractor had bulldozed the bricks into piles along the construction site between Greenwich and Andover Roads and told people to come get them. Quite a few did. My parents and brother cleaned bricks and I piled them in the back of the station wagon and drove loads home and stacked them and came back for more. We were at it for several weeks. They were far better quality bricks than anything you buy today as “paving bricks.”

By: Predestined

Predestined — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:59:32 +0000

Much of my early sex education was learned underneath the overpass on Seneca in the late 50’s and early 60’s. There was definitely some great artistic talent going on then.

By: bth

bth — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:29:25 +0000

West St was after I came here in 1986.

By: JWink

JWink — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:26:38 +0000

Years ago, the alignment of Highway 54/Kellogg going eastward should have turned south a block or two just east of the cemetery located just east of downtown Wichita.

Then the Highway 54/Kellogg trafficway could have been built relatively unimpeded by through traffic and business traffic. This also would have left the traditional business trafficway in place without buying the comparitively expensive rights of way.

Flyways and bridges should have been avoided as much as possible and put on grade level because these structures have a finite lifespan of some 50 years or so. Seems like an eternity looking forward but not so long looking back.

I suspect if this plan had been adopted this whole mess would have been essentially completed 15 years ago.

But once again the City of Wichita was sold a bill of goods by “music men” who came calling on River City.

By: Predestined

Predestined — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:14:58 +0000

I can vaguely remember when Eastgate was a few miles from civilization. Okay, not that bad, but I grew up a couple of blocks south of Kellogg and east of Seneca and have some extremely hazy memories of ramps being finished. That may be a figment of my imagination, so just when did they put in the overpasses in the west part of town?

By: JMWalker

JMWalker — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:14:50 +0000

The fossilized barrels will be on display out on West Kellogg, where new delays are planned. It is advised not hitting the fossilized ones, as they will probably leave a pretty hefty dent.

By: JMWalker

JMWalker — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:10:32 +0000

Three fossilized orange, plastic barrels were dug up yesterday, just south of the intersection of Rock Rd and Kellogg. The barrels were probably placed there around the turn of the century, when construction of the Kellogg first started.

Said project director, Manny Delays, “They (the barrels) really haven’t changed that much since 1908.”

By: Regular

Regular — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:10:05 +0000

Dang Jed,

Did they have a lot of “road apples” on the red brick Kellogg back in the day?

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:06:56 +0000

JM,
No, but it used to be a red brick highway. My large patio and several other projects are made from what was once Kellogg.
My only regret is that I didn’t sink everything I had into Orange Cones back when they were invented- I’d be a multi-gazillionaire by now!

By: gster

gster — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:06:36 +0000

JMWalker– I’m taking the 5th on that question. I’ve got enough problems as it is!

By: JMWalker

JMWalker — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:03:21 +0000

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gster
Posted May 14, 2008 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

I disagree with the premise- in my experience, Kellogg is definitely built for speed!
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Meth or auto?

By: bth

bth — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:03:12 +0000

Correct regular. And that was badly exacerbated by poor planning. It is a lot easier to acquire right-of-way BEFORE everything is developed.