Originally Posted by
Roody
Congratlations on getting involved.
BTW, are you certain that it's city workers (who probably make less than $20 an hour) who are getting all that money on road construction? Around here, major road work is done by contracted private sector construction companies, not by the city workers. The city directly does only simple road maintenance.
Here it would be city workers. County work is sub contracted as is much of the state projects. When you go to complain about a roadway first you have to find out who is responsible. There is a small municipal airport jut I the edge of the little town. They had the road repaved but there is a 2.5 foot concrete flat gutter separating the road from the parking turn outs. They left a gap of about one inch between the blacktop and the concrete. That is just about the same size of a 700x23-28 tire. Some of our friends have gone down getting a wheel stuck in that groove. We complained to the city and they informed us it wasn't a city street. We figured it was airport property but they denied it was their's. Finally the county was contacted and they said it was done under private contract. They did fix some of it but only the particular part we complained about. So we learned a lot about who paves what streets in my area.