I took the photo of this sign in the way back from visiting a builder on a road called Tune Dr. Earlier that day I found myself practically boldering in my SUV at the other end of Tune. My GPS couldn’t quite understand the difference it seems.
Because I’d been at the end this road sign directs hot springs visitors to just an hour before, I knew immediately what a ridiculous sign it is.
That’s because the sign was put up by the county to satisfy Tune residents tired of having their private dirt road torn up by all the traffic to the hot springs. They actually convinced the county to even pave the currently dirt road B007 mentioned in the sign, so that cars would be more attracted to the other route to the hot springs.
Here’s the problem with all their logic: whether tourists take the currently paved highway to the south end of Tune and head north, or the newly paved B007 to the north end of Tune and head south, there is no getting to that hot springs without taking Tune Drive. And actually, the route from the north is far rougher than the popular route now!
You would think that the people making these decisions who have lived here for years would get this before a newbie like me would, but apparently not. There was even a front page newspaper article that talked about the need to route traffic to the hot springs the other way, saying it would get people to stay off the private road, Tune dr. Did I mention that it’s the private road Tune Dr. either way?
They even included a map drawing with the article to illustrate the differences in the two routes, and drew it wrong! They drew it as if the newly paved public road was now going to go all the way to the hot springs when really it just goes to the other end of the same private road that must be maintained by the residents.
Makes me think that either there’s something wrong with the air up here such that no one can think straight once they are here for long OR someone with influence in the situation owns land on B007 and has been looking for an excuse to get the county to use its money to pave their road. A paved road increases property value.
Anyway, just more life in the country. Btw, this my first post written on my mobile phone using a mobile steemit app, as if having to use my iPad when traveling earlier this year wasn’t bad enough. It probably took me three times as long to write it, and I decided to skip one factor at play all together just to spare myself the typing.
Needless to say, I’ll be sticking to my laptop going forward.