Sarge
I love Canada, I hate what the politicians are doing to it.....
I just reread your message, the potholes here in Niagara are huge as well, but the politicians are spending money like water for other things.
The official explanation a few years ago was, and read carefully please this is complex....
The province gives the city and the region money for road repair. Roads are divided into 3 classes Good roads, fair roads and bad roads, and the money is allotted in accordance with the number of each that a community has. So that in order to keep the grants at their maximum, the city has to be very careful to keep the right number of good roads, fair roads and bad roads, because if the roads were all brought up to good condition the grant to repair roads would be decreased and the number of persons in the road repair department would be decreased and there would be no people and no money to repair the roads when they got to need repair. So in Niagara region they have a policy of repairing the worst roads while allowing the good roads to become fair roads and the fair roads to become bad roads so that there is constant funding and work for the road repair crew......
Two years ago they re-did the road in front of my house. they moved the lights did some sidewalks, new roadbed and new continuous curbing, you know the drill. Last year they cut the road up to put in sensors so that the new lights with a flashing advance green, could tell when cars were waiting and flash or not flash. This year they put in all new stop lights (they don't flash they have arrows, and they don't have wooden poles they have the new wooden poles they have fancy aluminum ones, and cut the new road up for a second time to redo the wiring for the new stoplights. the continuous curbing has now been cut in a dozen places near my house and the road looks like cubist art..... now the new road will break down much faster, and be ready in no time to be a bad road...... Yup it is a fine system......I betcha you are stunned with amazement of the beauty of that scam, so simple so elegant, a machine that is continuously in motion and is continuously make new work for itself, a perpetual motion machine..... |
