Last spring I saw a city DPW truck hit a pot hole and blow a tire. It was fixed about three hours later when I drove by again.
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Quoth Crossbow View PostWelcome to my world. Pothole dodging is standard procedure come spring in my area. The freeze-thaw cycle combined with snowplows gives you a lunar surface to drive on.
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I hate the winter even more since it tends to bow or buckle the streets/roads that magnify and raise the seams causing my car to feel as if it is on a washboard. I swear that some roads were built like this on purpose.
every spring and fall I have to get my front end aligned because of the crappy roads I travel everyday.I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
-- Life Sucks Then You Die.
"I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."
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Dare you to drive on Carling Avenue in the middle of winter then.
Whoever made that road decided to use concrete slabs (about 100 feet long, and 50 feet wide, IIRC) with a couple inches of asphalt on top. Within a year the Frostheaves from water seepage through the asphalt caused the entire road surface from Bronson to Richmond (about 7 Kilometres) to buckle like an accordion, and it took nearly 30 years of steady decay before the city finally said 'well, that was a mistake' and actually begin fixing the road.
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You can buy a pothole here in Germany:
German Town Looking for Pothole Sponsors
It's a steal... only €50 and you can have a plaque on the hole too if you wish so.No trees were killed in the posting of this message.
However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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There's a stretch of road about a mile and a half long on the way to school that's AWFUL for potholes. It's so bad that I've started to memorize which way to dodge to avoid most of them (you CAN'T avoid them all) and I'm starting to worry about the shocks in my car from the times I can't avoid them. During the last snow, a gas station actually put a cone in the leading pothole in a series of them in the road in front of their store to warn people that it was there. And it's not a city road--this particular stretch is Highway 71, so it's a state road!
It's kind of funny, seeing the various patches all over it. It was originally a concrete road, and all the oldest patches are real patches (cut out a square of concrete down to the bottom, fill it to the level of the road, essentially creating a small section of brand new road) and in excellent condition. Not a single square patch on the road is damaged. The newer patches are the 'throw asphalt in and pray' types, and are constantly getting ripped out.It's little things that make the difference between 'enjoyable', 'tolerable', and 'gimme a spoon, I'm digging an escape tunnel'.
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Quoth LadyAndreca View PostIt's kind of funny, seeing the various patches all over it. It was originally a concrete road, and all the oldest patches are real patches (cut out a square of concrete down to the bottom, fill it to the level of the road, essentially creating a small section of brand new road) and in excellent condition. Not a single square patch on the road is damaged. The newer patches are the 'throw asphalt in and pray' types, and are constantly getting ripped out.
I hate the "asphalt and prayers" kind of patches. It never fails, when those are put in, a week or two later you start seeing migrating asphalt debris down the road as the hole starts opening up again."Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
- Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V
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