Road workers will *always* be employed...

I've lived about 10 miles out of Cheyenne, Wyoming for the last seven months. The city of Cheyenne has very few potholes, compared to other towns I've lived in (aka, Minnesotan towns after every winter).

So you'd think that road crews wouldn't have much to do.

Not so. Today, I drove down College Avenue for the first time in 3 or 4 days, and one side of the road has been grated up, or scraped up - whatever the technical term is, and new road stuff is going to be laid. They aren't expanding the width of the road, they're just replacing an old road bed with a new road bed.

And I'm wondering...why? I've driven down College every two or three days for the last 7 months, and there has never been a pothole on that road. There were no cracks in the road, no problems with camber or pooling water, nothing. The road was in perfect shape.

Yet it's been scraped off and new road stuff will shortly be laid.

Well...it's a way to make sure Wyoming's road crews continue to get paid, I guess. Make-work. Remove a perfectly good road every year, and replace it with a road which will hopefully be just as good...but with materials cost and time cost probably twice as much as it had been for the original, perfectly fine road.

Well, Wyoming is a pretty successful state - only 5% unemployment and in many cities, only 3% - mostly because mining for natural gas and oil is bringing in lots of workers.

(Wyoming is also the least populated state in the Union - with fewer inhabitants than Alaska, apparently! That's probably because most visitors through this state get blown right out of it by the wind!)

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