One picture is worth a million potholes
Posted on: Monday, March 8th, 2010
The City of St. John’s has its largest tax base and lowest level of unemployment in recent history (most likely ever), and city services continue to do a terrible job of patching up roads that have not been properly serviced since Joey was fighting for confederation.
[photo by Ryan Strickland]
March 8th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
the least you could do is credit the photographer.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:07 am
Even the new sections of road, the one I am talking about in particular, the Logy Bay road part that was recently paved… it seems to be cheaply done as far as my amateur eye can tell. Yes, anyone can tell you that it was smooth as a runway but the fact is that we blew a tire approaching or on that piece of road.
What does this indicate? We are lucky to have the road even paved, and it wouldn’t be there except for the fact that a large new subdivision was put up over the years and the trucks have beaten the crap out of the roads, so they had to do something.
Sometimes I think like this to help further my patience: Maybe I don’t know so much about running a city. Perhaps they are putting the money in other places so that one day we will never need to worry about this again. Since roads are expenses, not producers of money. As long as it’s almost drivable, it will do.
If this is the case then fine, when that day comes please implement better technology and construction of these roads. The Germans have a big machine that can drive over land and pave it as it’s driving over it. This is a bit better then Germany but surely we can do better then awarding the contract to the lowest builder in the old boy’s club and having men with pitchforks hurl asphalt into life-threatening potholes in the middle of a red light.
Do the roads right the first time, they’ll last longer.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:09 am
Last paragraph… This is not Germany, is what I mean. 1:39AM
March 9th, 2010 at 9:31 am
@bambam
Would that be you? I have no idea who the photographer is, someone sent the off kilter cell phone snap to me in an email.
March 9th, 2010 at 10:11 am
ha, I took that pic and posted it on twitter last night. http://twitter.com/ryanstrickland