The Politics of Potholes WheelHouse
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Date: 2019-10-24
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S Tho
Notice most of the states listed with the worst roads are Big Government can solve Everything philosophy states. I barely ever see an unattended pothole in the Dixie states from SC to Texas. The smoothest interstates I see are Mississippi and Alabama which are opposite philosophy and should be way underfunded. True they are beneath the severe hard freeze line, but they do keep on top of their maintenance. They even straddle the New Madrid fault on I20 where the clay constantly shifts, yet they keep up with the maintenance. I see well maintained roads in icy Ohio and Wyoming, but absolutely terrible ones in Illinois and Colorado. It seems that a substitution of funding is likely happening in the big government states. Funding meant for a physical repair, going to offices, endless unproductive studies and civil salaries/pensions. Chicago once you get off lakeside drive, seems to have dome of the worst public infrastructure I've ever seen in a vibrant state. The roads aren't that old. NYC and Boston do have very old roads, but Chicago burned down and was rebuilt in the modern era.
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Notice most of the states listed with the worst roads are Big Government can solve Everything philosophy states. I barely ever see an unattended pothole in the Dixie states from SC to Texas. The smoothest interstates I see are Mississippi and Alabama which are opposite philosophy and should be way underfunded. True they are beneath the severe hard freeze line, but they do keep on top of their maintenance. They even straddle the New Madrid fault on I20 where the clay constantly shifts, yet they keep up with the maintenance. I see well maintained roads in icy Ohio and Wyoming, but absolutely terrible ones in Illinois and Colorado. It seems that a substitution of funding is likely happening in the big government states. Funding meant for a physical repair, going to offices, endless unproductive studies and civil salaries/pensions. Chicago once you get off lakeside drive, seems to have dome of the worst public infrastructure I've ever seen in a vibrant state. The roads aren't that old. NYC and Boston do have very old roads, but Chicago burned down and was rebuilt in the modern era.
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Micah AP
The biggest problem with potholes is actually that Don't know how to repair them. At least not anymore. Road construction and repair quality has dramatically decreased over the last 2-3 decades. They waste money on a crappy almost worthless repair that doesnt last. Further in many cases they will repave the roads. The repaved product is pathetic and again doesnt last and is pathetic quality which again doesnt last. To compound the poor road material quality and design, the surface is usually vastly uneven which damages the road prematurely even more. The extra concentration of compounded weight on points of the road and vehicle suspension bounces is another reason the new pavement is doom from the beginning. So basically everything done is just wasted and the roads continually get worse
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The biggest problem with potholes is actually that Don't know how to repair them. At least not anymore. Road construction and repair quality has dramatically decreased over the last 2-3 decades. They waste money on a crappy almost worthless repair that doesnt last. Further in many cases they will repave the roads. The repaved product is pathetic and again doesnt last and is pathetic quality which again doesnt last. To compound the poor road material quality and design, the surface is usually vastly uneven which damages the road prematurely even more. The extra concentration of compounded weight on points of the road and vehicle suspension bounces is another reason the new pavement is doom from the beginning. So basically everything done is just wasted and the roads continually get worse
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Alex Lopez
Raising taxes does very little. Take California's most recent gas tax increase. Half of that money (okay maybe not half) goes to pensions for CalTrans employees. The rest if lost in bureaucracy and eventually does reach money for transportation projects. There's a reason the California Department of Transportation was fighting extremely hard to get that law passed. Even breaking laws when employees were endorsing it on freeways (caltrans property) when government agencies are forbidden from endorsing propositions. The employees wanted that money for their pensions
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Raising taxes does very little. Take California's most recent gas tax increase. Half of that money (okay maybe not half) goes to pensions for CalTrans employees. The rest if lost in bureaucracy and eventually does reach money for transportation projects. There's a reason the California Department of Transportation was fighting extremely hard to get that law passed. Even breaking laws when employees were endorsing it on freeways (caltrans property) when government agencies are forbidden from endorsing propositions. The employees wanted that money for their pensions
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Skittles but with chocolate inside
only in america we have the right to put a huge displacement V8 engine inside a vehicle meant to carry pigs and hailbales. We also like driving on oval shape track for 500 times in said vehicles. In america we like big cars made out of cheap plastic that might look new from the outside but share 90% of the components from shit we made 30 years ago. Also our gas is half the price from most other countryes but we still like to complain how expencive it is.
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only in america we have the right to put a huge displacement V8 engine inside a vehicle meant to carry pigs and hailbales. We also like driving on oval shape track for 500 times in said vehicles. In america we like big cars made out of cheap plastic that might look new from the outside but share 90% of the components from shit we made 30 years ago. Also our gas is half the price from most other countryes but we still like to complain how expencive it is.
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Joe Baldwin
Unfortunately places such as LA use gas tax funds for other purposes making raising taxes worthless without accountability. As far as raising the federal limit goes, that ruins accountability even more so, and allows poorly planned projects in one state to get funding from another states citizen. Getting rid of the federal tax and funding is much better, allowing funding and accountability to be at the point of use.
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Unfortunately places such as LA use gas tax funds for other purposes making raising taxes worthless without accountability. As far as raising the federal limit goes, that ruins accountability even more so, and allows poorly planned projects in one state to get funding from another states citizen. Getting rid of the federal tax and funding is much better, allowing funding and accountability to be at the point of use.
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Alex Raileanu
While additional funding for infrastructure seems entirely reasonable, the gas tax is regressive (meaning that it disproportionately affects low income individuals. Perhaps a progressive fuel tax, included with registration fees, based on 1) mileage reported each year, 2) value of the vehicle, and 3) estimated fuel economy could be implemented? Im not saying that this is THE answer, just my 0. 02.
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While additional funding for infrastructure seems entirely reasonable, the gas tax is regressive (meaning that it disproportionately affects low income individuals. Perhaps a progressive fuel tax, included with registration fees, based on 1) mileage reported each year, 2) value of the vehicle, and 3) estimated fuel economy could be implemented? Im not saying that this is THE answer, just my 0. 02.
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DaddyLongLegs44
Was riding my motorcycle when I passed a pair of potholes that could've easily buckled me off my horse. I could've rode on by but thought about the next rider. He/she might not miss it and end up seriously injured. So I pulled over and called the city and told them about it. Next day it was filled. Good on ya Mesa, AZ for the quick response. Bad on ya for that sneaky speed cam on Pecos.
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Was riding my motorcycle when I passed a pair of potholes that could've easily buckled me off my horse. I could've rode on by but thought about the next rider. He/she might not miss it and end up seriously injured. So I pulled over and called the city and told them about it. Next day it was filled. Good on ya Mesa, AZ for the quick response. Bad on ya for that sneaky speed cam on Pecos.
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Spencer S. Young
Driving home from a bear lake vacation hit a pot hole at 80 mph in my 2003 dodge ram causing the dodge death wabble (more like death shake) my truck proceeded to jump and shake off the road into a huge ditch luckily a trucker saw what happened called 911 my pregnant wife and I were not hurt but that was a bad day all caused by a little erosion/sinking at the bottom of a hill
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Driving home from a bear lake vacation hit a pot hole at 80 mph in my 2003 dodge ram causing the dodge death wabble (more like death shake) my truck proceeded to jump and shake off the road into a huge ditch luckily a trucker saw what happened called 911 my pregnant wife and I were not hurt but that was a bad day all caused by a little erosion/sinking at the bottom of a hill
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Jon Lough
My vote is to take a small fraction of the quatrillion dollars being spent and buy every one snow tires so we don't have salt the crap out if the roads. Or maybe we could invest some of the remaining money in developing better road technologies that put the infinite supply of plastic bottles and used tires we have to work.
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My vote is to take a small fraction of the quatrillion dollars being spent and buy every one snow tires so we don't have salt the crap out if the roads. Or maybe we could invest some of the remaining money in developing better road technologies that put the infinite supply of plastic bottles and used tires we have to work.
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