I have met that engineer.
I have wondered if these pictures were real or photoshopped.
http://leenks.com/gallery499.htm
Very possibly real. Take note of the guter on the right side of the house. It is cut at driveway level.
I don't have pics but here in the small city I live in decided they need to spend nearly mil on perrty sidewalks. Well that's all fine and dandy, but they took nearly two years doing the first phase ( which is maybe 2000 feet total ).
The problem comes in that we have to major highways run threw town and they have that little 35' offset. Coming from my side not a big deal. But coming from the right trying to get to the interstate there are skid marks all over the side walk. Tracktor trailers can't negotiate this turn and not mounth the sidewalk. Still no big deal if it
wasn't an area traveled by them.
The trucks were here first. There is also no way around this aside from driving 50 miles out of the way. When I go that way I mount the curb in just the dumptruck and scare the bujebease outa anyone sitting at the light coming from the other direction if they are behind the line ( if not I can't make the turn ).
Curbs and sidewalks seem to be one of the more comon error I see. Most engineers have never pulled a 53' trailer and don't acount for them.
A recent mall built near one of my jobs had the same scenario as town here.
The wonderful new road buudget just put up about 10 miles of gaurdrail where there never was. Some is in places that might could use it, but the other half is just wasted steel and a grass cutting nightmare for the land owners. They put a section up and not sure yet, but think they've blocked my exit with the skidloader and trailer. Where my skidloader is it's kind of a blind driveway so no lollygagging when pulling out, but now that the gaurd rail hangs 10 foot into the radius of the drive I don't think I can go that way any longer. I'll have to go the other way and turn around and come back.
They also ground the edges of some new asphault for that horrible sound telling you you're about to cross the white line. Which is ok I recon a bit anoying in a wide vehicle in the country, but I can live with that. The kicker is there is a 45 degree turn on a pretty good down hill slope that they stooped doing this at the bigining of the turn then started again at the end. Kind of only doing the straight stretches and mild turns.