I feel like they should really be looking into how much additional wear the absurd percentages of suvs and pickups are causing
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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It's not that, it's the freight trucks. We have a much higher weight limit than other states, and it tears up our roads. States around us spend about 3 times as much on roads as we do.
Brining the roads in bulk during the winter also doesn't help.
It's partially the freight trucks, but even without them there's a reason why the states around us spend 3x as us on their roads. Agree that freight trucks don't help, but the real gap is spending.
Decades of cheap construction and half-assed fixes finally coming home to roost. I almost wish that giant gas tax had gone through so we could actually fund real, sustainable road construction.
How can Ohio and Indianna have so much better roads? And don't say lake effect because that is not much worse than the states to the south. We in MI need to do whatever they are doing, if it's toll roads or higher taxes then so be it. Driving through those states I did notice they have some strong weight restrictions on their roads, maybe MI needs to toughen up the weight regulations.
Also stop fucking ripping up stretches of road and leaving them closed for months. Either finish the fucking project at once or don't rip them up in the first place! I am tired of trying to get around and roads are closed for the whole summer until a week before snow fall and then suddenly the construction gets rushed. How good can a repair be if the asphalt is placed during winter.
The states around us spend an average of three times as much as Michigan on road maintenance and road construction. Another part of the problem is we use the same low bidders who have proven track records for cutting corners and budget overruns. We don't adopt mechanisms to cut out the crap construction.
A big factor is that Michigan has looser trucking laws. I have heard some civil planing doesn't even consider cars for road life. Allowing bigger heavier trucks moving very fast really tear up roads.
The privatised road maintenance in the UK is hilarious.
A road might have tens of potholes, so they'll close the road off for a day or two, and then fix the one pothole they were called out to repair, leaving the others.
I guarantee this is because they are sticking to the letter of their contract (to repair potholes that are reported), but know they can milk the system for multiple payouts if they do as little as possible.
It's so inefficient. I can point out multiple instances of this within a 5 minute walk of my flat.
And this applies to every single essential service that these corporate ghouls have worked themselves into.
The council built a huge scaffold on our flats to cover up a disused chimney stack. This involves placing a single tile over the chimney. The whole thing could have been done with a ladder. Why did they cover the chimney? Because the neighbour downstairs has moisture problems in their walls. The chimney stack isn't even on their side of the building. The moisture problem persists.
The same company charged all the residents 800 quid each to fit 3 new "energy efficient" hall lights to replace the automatic ones we had before. These new energy efficient lights never turn off...
They charged us each 2000 pounds to paint the hallway.
They charged us 1000 pounds to replace our stair railings with "child safe railings" that have razor sharp edges and a gap at the bottom that a child could easily fall through.
I want to destroy this country