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Posted on 08/17/2016 4:28:43 PM PDT by Theoria
For miles and miles Omaha stretches on, one tidy, suburban-style neighborhood after another filled with modern low-slung houses set on spacious lawns with towering oaks and elms.
It's a model of comfortable mid-American living, with one unusual exception: thanks to a quirk in how Omaha developed, about 300 miles of streets in these nice neighborhoods are pitted with potholes almost big enough to swallow an SUV.
The bad roads have been both an anomaly and a source of complaints for years. But recently, they've become the center of a mini-crisis after local officials began dispatching crews to tear up the asphalt in the neighborhoods and turn the streets back into dirt roads, much like what existed in the city's frontier days.
The sudden appearance of miles of dirt road in the midst of urban Omaha has prompted angry protests by residents and showcased a conflict over the public services homeowners should expect when a modern city outgrows some of its old real estate agreements.
"No letter, no notice. We just came home on a Tuesday, and our street was ground up," said Joe Skradski, a dentist who lives on 113th Street, where a dozen $400,000-and-up houses now line a dirt path. "Since then, it's been nothing short of a nightmare."
Nearly every U.S. city faces a backlog of needed roadwork as streets built decades ago wear out, but the situation is especially vexing in Omaha, a sprawling city of 435,000 people with 4,800 miles of road and not enough tax revenue to maintain them.
Decades ago, a number of developers sought permission to lay down asphalt roads rather than longer-lasting concrete in several sections in the middle of town, and to skip installing curbs and gutters preferred by the city.
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Crew: Washing it was sheer stupidity.
Salesman: There is no tomorrow! Have you ever heard of rain!?!?!?
Obama took (stole) from us over $7 TRILLION he promised would be used for “infrastructure” and “shovel-ready jobs”
yet, there’s nary a new major highway in America, nor any new airports or ports or universities even...
after several years of no construction and no ‘shovel-ready jobs’ Obama was finally forced to admit that was wrong, there weren’t any
But he’s kept our money!
WHERE HAS HE HIDDEN ALL OF OUR MONEY THAT HE STOLE FROM US!?
I’ve lived in Europe for a few years. The Netherlands and Germany’s roads are impressive. They often use bricks more; and it seems easier to replace a few sections of road with bricks instead of closing down the entire road.
Omaha is more generous with streets they have not accepted than my county is:
http://www.cityofomaha.org/pw/index.php/residents2/streets/unimproved-streets
In my neighborhood in South San Francisco, we had numerous potholes and complained for years. The city recently did micro-surfacing of all the surrounding streets. Now it looks great. When the notices went around, we wondered what the heck is micro-surfacing? Rather than chop up the old pavement, a truck pours a layer on top of the existing street surface that fills in all potholes and cracks, with a smooth thin even layer the width of the street. It saved the city money, and is a cheaper alternative than removing old asphalt and subsequent paving. And it was done quickly in one day.
It's gone. It went to buy all those weapons and vehicles we have been giving to our enemies.
that’s probably right, yes.
In Arizona they used old tires. But the trades Union complained and they had to stop. The tire roads lasted double the life of regular crap they use today. Ugh!
WHERE HAS HE HIDDEN ALL OF OUR MONEY THAT HE STOLE FROM US!?
Why in his friends pockets of course.
yes of course.
and to supply massive advanced weaponry to all of his IslamNazi terrorist murder gangs
Unions are great at making life miserable for everyone else.
Into making and installing millions of these signs and then later disposing of them.
He is a pot hole.
The clicky clack of the road used to put me to sleep when I was a kid in the back seat.
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