MATTERS AT HAND: Western N.D. may be catching up with oil boom
August 25, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Grand Forks Herald
It may be that western North Dakota is catching up with the oil boom.
For me, the first indication was a pile of gravel. Continue Reading
The bypass is done and it swings way out of town…But in town it’s a whole nother matter. They have the main road through town down to two lanes and with so much added traffic it can easily match the gridlock of any huge city during rush hour…Only their “Rush Hour” can basically be any time during a 24 hour period. Then once you pull off the main road to travel to you destination you find those roads are extremely busy and in gridlock mode at different times of day too. For the time being until they get done with some of that construction the town is anything but caught up when it comes to travel….It’s really a nightmare right now.
There’s a couple new truck stops being built north of town, but I doubt that will barely make a dent because truck stops further out were totally taken over by oil field trucks. Those of us with regular and bigger trucks really have a hell of a time finding any place we can park if we need to because of log time. So there too the town has a lot of catching up to do yet.
From what I saw there just Fri and Sat morning before I left at 0500……I sure wouldn’t want to live there right now because if anything defines a real rat race it’s the current condition of Williston from what I could see…So many oil field trucks from the big rigs with about 45′ trailers to the huge four wheel drive pickups that are so frequent that mere cars almost seem like spying a rare bird or something……
It’s a boom town that’s in the middle of one huge Kaboom right now…..From what I saw I have a dificult time seeing it as in a catching up stage right now. If anything I seen it in a huge struggling stage with all this growth and influx of people and vehicles right now. A buddy of mine who has family in Williston that have lived there for decades has complained about the problem of having a too small police force that is spread so thin with all the new problems that it seems they often take quite a long response time for items that aren’t dire emergencies.
So it might be catching up in some aspects of housing for the time being, but I think it has quite a way to go before it catches up with the total onslaught of the oil field growth…
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