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I single-handedly got the mayor of my small town to fill in a bunch of potholes on a road leading to my parents place. I have an old car and while the suspensio
by MarcelOlsz 2y ago
I single-handedly got the mayor of my small town to fill in a bunch of potholes on a road leading to my parents place. I have an old car and while the suspension is great, it's destroyed the bottom of my car and multiple valences costing me a lot since it sits so low. I started calling the mayor every single day and we ended up talking for a few hours.
Nothing got done until I distributed flyers and went knocking on every single home along my route to my parents on that shitty road and got everyone to call him whenever they could.
The road got fixed and has stayed that way. The grand irony is that the hill is so steep that the only way I managed to get up it was with those potholes. Now I have to take the long 5km route around every time because my car can't make it up this smooth dirt road in the winter now as my car is sub-1000 kilos. I think the gas and lost-parts cost has now evened out at least!
- thumbletown 2y agoCould the mayor have been better focusing their time and efforts on broader issues, rather than just to stop a bunch of people from repeatedly calling him?
- MarcelOlsz 2y agoProbably not seeing as the roads are abysmal and there's only a few hundred people here.
- thatguy0900 2y agoHow much time and effort do you think it takes the mayor himself to authorize a crew to repair potholes? He's not going to go do it himself. Hopefully the government will already know how much it costs to repair a given length of road.