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Domino's Is Fixing America's Crappy Roads For Pizza Safety And That's Pretty Embarrassing
Jalopnik ^ | June 11, 2018 | Jason Torchinsky

Posted on 06/13/2018 9:08:28 PM PDT by thecodont

This feels like something from a William Gibson cyberpunk dystopia novel, where the government has become so weak and useless, private corporations have been taking over the basic upkeep of the nation. But it’s not a William Gibson novel, there’s no plucky protagonist with some sort of cybernetic implant, it’s just America in 2018, with crumbling roads that Domino’s has decided to fix. For the sake of the pizzas.

Domino’s is tired of their innocent pizzas, who only wish to serve humankind, being beaten all to hell by poorly-maintained roads. They even have a website that shows, in graphic, pizza-box-cam detail, what brutal hell pizzas are put through when their delivery vehicle impacts a pothole.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: dominos; dominospizza; gasolinetax; pizza; pothole; potholes; transportation
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1 posted on 06/13/2018 9:08:29 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont
Uh huh.

Good thing they aren't improving roads in Haiti if you catch my drift.

2 posted on 06/13/2018 9:10:45 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: thecodont

It’s embarrassing because they are doing it much faster and cheaper than our dear “public servants” are capable of doing it.


3 posted on 06/13/2018 9:10:47 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: thecodont

California’s spending all of its money on Moonbeam’s magical choo choo train to nowhere...


4 posted on 06/13/2018 9:11:45 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: thecodont

Good for Domino’s. I wish more companies would do this.

How long do you think the government will allow it?


5 posted on 06/13/2018 9:12:16 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: thecodont

score a point for the libertarians and ancaps


6 posted on 06/13/2018 9:12:50 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: thecodont

Crazy...$10 million worth of free PR kind of crazy.


7 posted on 06/13/2018 9:13:40 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: thecodont

Why is it that Democrat states always have the highest taxes, along with the worst roads?


8 posted on 06/13/2018 9:16:53 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: bigbob

Totally embarrassing to me. We paid for shovel ready jobs and the Keyenan must have shoved it up his nose. I’ll never sleep tonite. Don’t like the road drive slower and pray to Barry.


9 posted on 06/13/2018 9:17:53 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, pray it don't happen. You ain't carrying you lose automatically)
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To: TBP

I bet the unions will put a stop to it pretty quick. They’ve got to justify their public union jobs, after all.


10 posted on 06/13/2018 9:20:41 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Pray to Barry. You don’t want to grab that shovel.


11 posted on 06/13/2018 9:22:18 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, pray it don't happen. You ain't carrying you lose automatically)
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To: Kickass Conservative

My next pizza will be a Domino’s...


12 posted on 06/13/2018 9:27:55 PM PDT by GOPJ ("NORMS HAVE CHANGED ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SOMEONE AGAINST THEIR WILL." - predator Bill Clinton)
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To: thecodont

150 pot holes in Athens, Ga. Athens used to do the old hot tar/ gravel two step with pot holes. They did not bother to steam roll the add mixture. In other words they did not bother to press the hot tar gravel mixture down into the hole. The pictures show a steam roller compacting the repair work. It is nice to see Dominoes using the proper equipment.


13 posted on 06/13/2018 9:33:55 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: thecodont

The Jerry Brown’s Legacy: A $6.1 Billion Budget Surplus in California. Yet they DON’T FIX THE ROADS. The roads are a TOTAL MESS IN BROWNIFORNIA. KICK THE DAMM DEMOCRATS OUT OF OFFICE!


14 posted on 06/13/2018 9:35:02 PM PDT by hapnHal
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To: GOPJ

Mine too.

Founder was an ardent pro-life activist BTW.


15 posted on 06/13/2018 9:44:14 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: thecodont

Good. And their pizzas taste a lot better than Pizza Hut, which once was the leading company in northern Virginia.

Their slogan should be “We deliver: Better roads; Better pizzas”.


16 posted on 06/13/2018 10:13:32 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: American in Israel
"Why is it that Democrat states always have the highest taxes, along with the worst roads?"

Democrats are about growing the public unions with do-nothing jobs. Each union member forks over their union dues which winds up in the political war chests of Democrat representatives. This campaign money ultimately goes into back pockets after a money laundering process. Back pockets are the only pot holes these criminals are interested in filling.

17 posted on 06/13/2018 10:19:58 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the new cult of the Left.)
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To: thecodont

18 posted on 06/13/2018 10:28:11 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: American in Israel

I must say that I have worked for almost 40 years as an institutional equities trader in LA. I’m retired recently but I used to talk to NY all day long .... and I have entertained visitors from NYC for many years.

Almost everyone from NYC talks about how great California roads are ... and they are good. Every once in awhile there might be a pot hole ... but a call to CalTrans means it will be repaired .... sometimes in 24 hours.

The roads are great ... but we do have a problem with the sidewalks that NEVER seem to get repaired. Tree roots burst through the sidewalk and distort the ability to walk safely.

But roads ... fine.


19 posted on 06/13/2018 10:29:11 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: American in Israel; Liberty Valance

*** Why is it that Democrat states always have the highest taxes, along with the worst roads? ***

I live in one of the Reddest Counties in TX. My city should be renamed pothole capital of Texas. I try to remember where they are, but hit one two weeks ago by our Post Office. Bam, I had to spend nearly a thousand dollars for repairs to my car.

I saw some creative folks putting up little soccer cones one night, and pouring a concrete mixture to do a covert repair job near their house.

I would welcome Domino’s fixing our Potholes. Our local Politicians have never seemed that interested in the plethora of potholes.


20 posted on 06/13/2018 10:47:27 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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