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Posted: 04 Nov 2013

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Theodore Roosevelt Natl Park, ND bridge (0454)

Theodore Roosevelt Natl Park, ND bridge (0454)
US 85 bridge over the Little Missouri river. Note the level of truck traffic on the grade in the distance, and the mobile home parked just north of the bridge. When I was in the same area in 2002, in the summer when there would have been tourist traffic, there was almost no traffic on the road. All of this in an area that was only recently remote with almost no traffic -- you would have probably seen only one other car or farm truck on the grade.

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 Clint
Clint
I think North Dakotans feel like they've finally arrived, and they it hasn't occurred to them how transient all this is. Very much a boom mentality.
10 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
Would be interesting to know if Dakotans feel that way, or if they're just being passive about letting business have its way. The only good side too it all is that more people usually results in a political environment that gets a little less conservative.
10 years ago.
 Jasperdo
Jasperdo
We were just here in June. Theodore Roosevelt is a great National Park. You're right about this road being full of truck traffic. I was expecting it, since I knew about the Bakken oil boom in the area. But actually seeing it was a whole different story. Poor little Watford City was a clogged mess of traffic. We spent the night in Williston. Couldn't wait to leave in the morning. I'm sure a lot of people are happy with all the jobs and the new found money. But I think it came with a high cost.
10 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Jasperdo
Pictures from around Watford going up tonight. I found myself wondering "why"? If we had a rational way of regulating industry, they wouldn't try to do it all at once, but instead span the drilling out over years so they didn't create these instant towns. But, that's not the way it happens.
10 years ago.

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