Local and state governments are just as bad with the money or worse.
Just last week they announced transportation funding here in Michigan. A county park in Jackson got $2 million to tear down a concrete wall that never should have been built and the county got $750,000 for roads.
I’d have to know what kind of wheels he had before I decide if I have any sympathy. Normal wheels and tires will get some sympathy. If he had oversized wheels with skinny sidewalls, no sympathy.
Have you driven in downtown Minneapolis? The potholes are so bad, the other day I saw a mountain goat with a sprained ankle.
But now you have to send a request that goes through 18 levels of bureaucracy up to Washington DC where it then goes to a committee who decides to allocate “funding’ for road repair depending on whether your district voted the right way last election
It’s not just Minnesota. It’s pothole season all over the cold states. I find myself being very careful in trying to avoid them. Not always successful. I will give the DOT credit for trying to patch them recently. But they are pesky little buggers.
I know a guy that invented a shovel that would stand on it’s own. Didn’t need the three guys standing around holding theirs while one guy did the work.
It was not a big seller in the shovel ready community.
After Katrina I saw a photo of a pothole on Calhoun street that had a stove in it. And you could not see the stove from street level. Now that’s a pothole.
I was down there in November after the storm. My son’s place had ten feet of water. The whole area was deserted. No people, no birds, no insects, nothing. No sounds etc. It was like a Twilight Zone episode. And that was three months after the storm.