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Yes, people call it in and cops clean it up. We just have a lot of roads and people that poorly packed stuff in trucks

• q3k 1y ago
  ... cops? There's no, like, highway traffic authority with their own maintenance force to take care of this?
  • jeffbee 1y ago
    A ladder in the road is a legitimate emergency. If you call 911 to report a ladder in the road, they will direct the issue to the relevant agency (which will be the state police, in all likelihood, because they will need to close a lane).
  • bilbo0s 1y ago
    I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? I couldn't make out what you said clearly? All I heard was "taxes". /s On a more serious note, in the US we generally go in the direction of fewer services rather than more services. It, of course, leads to massive inefficiencies, like police removing shredded tires. But it's very difficult here, politically speaking, to get Americans to agree to add government services.
  • JohnFen 1y ago
    There is in most states. There are often signs periodically telling you what phone number to call to report such hazards. If possible, it's better to call that number than 911, but if you don't know the number, 911 will do. They'll just forward your report to that agency anyway.
  • dragonwriter 1y ago
    There usually nominally is, and they may do some of the work, but overfunding law enforcement and then having them cover work that should have been done by other agencies that whose funding has been limited by the drive to stuff more money into LE is a pretty common pattern for US state and local governments. But also the dominance of car culture in the US is such that the principal state police force may actually be principally designed as a component of the highway traffic authority, as is the cass in California where the Highway Patrol was always larger than and in 1995 absorbed the State Police.