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I don't buy the $18 million number. If the city has been only doing one sixth of the required maintenance, the roads would already be degraded to a point where
by fallingknife 5y ago
I don't buy the $18 million number. If the city has been only doing one sixth of the required maintenance, the roads would already be degraded to a point where it was obvious.
- rdtwo 5y agoThe number includes replacement cost at end of life. Nobody calculates for that because it’s something you kick the can down the road for until you have catastrophic failure then you ask for state and federal funds
- ethanbond 5y agoHow do you know it’s not obvious? Road quality is a pretty standard complaint in small town America.
- fallingknife 5y agoI mean like undriveable obvious.
- jeffbee 5y agoWhy do you think this is impossible? My city has been under-funding road repair for fifty years, is now believed to be about $300 million behind, and owns 50 centerline miles, 22% of the total streets in the city, with a pavement condition of "failed".
- xyzzyz 5y agoCan you tell me which city is that? I’d like to take a stroll using Street View, to see what failed infrastructure looks like.
- jeffbee 5y agoBerkeley, California. For a typical but also amazing example, see the photo at the top of https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/programs-projects/streets-roads-arterials/pavement-condition-index https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/programs-projects/streets-road... ETA: Street View to get you started https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8675561,-122.2930415,3a,75y,277.31h,61.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stmTJtWaJPp_WErO4UgK7ng!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8675561,-122.2930415,3a,75y,...
- prepend 5y agoIt’s more likely that the authors napkin math is wrong. He says that maybe he’s 50% off but it’s more likely that he’s 10x off.
- aqme28 5y agoDid you see the posted photos of that road? It's as obvious as you describe.
- aqme28 5y agoI can't seem to edit my comment but it's here https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9373005,-90.3943558,3a,75y,339.89h,62.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1somcIVp4KYloQTEoJlwVGtg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9373005,-90.3943558,3a,75y,3...