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Kody James Ague

I currently work in road design. Most of my career has been electrical building system design. So when I was new to road design I labeled a bunch of intersections with 20' radii. By a bunch I mean the whole project of 20+ intersections so over 80 corners, roughly. The problem is that they weren't actually drawn at 20', they were all drawn differently because I didn't know any better. Some were only 7', 13' etc. So when it was time to construct the curbs on each corner, nothing lined up. So now instead of a nice new consistent result these intersections all have random and different radii. It was embarrassing to say the least and I never was invited to visit the project during construction which I was thankful for!