But that is only part of the problem. N.J. Now I realize that we must pay a price for progress. Unfortunately, that will be 17 million years from now, and the only living things left on earth will be cockroaches. Often, in fact, they ARE the project. What happens is, a crew will strew cones all over a stretch of highway the length of Tennessee, and this effort will use up the entire budget for that particular project, leaving the highway department with no financially responsible choice but to abandon it and move on to the next project in the Master Highway Construction Plan, which was originally developed during World War II by Nazi undercover agents seeking to bring America to its knees.
Nothing happens in Phase III, which typically lasts six years.
That Never Actually Move litter the construction site with huge, powerful-looking pieces of construction equipment, many of which do not have engines. Eventually these are worn away by erosion. The project is actually completed, and a giant talking cucumber from Mars dances the hula. I don't mean to be overly critical of highway-construction workers. They're only doing their jobs.