Rigby5
Diamond Member
Yes. Our roads sewers and bridges are atrocious. Every minute that goes by where they are not fixed it becomes significantly more expensive. I retired from fixing them because I did not want to get lynched when people can no longer get where they want to go and suffer the economic consequences of not being able to get where they need to go. I know at least 20 county engineers that are retiring in the next four years for the same reason in my state alone. Those are just the ones I know about there are likely more. Funding these projects over the last 15 years has become a freaking nightmare. We have been patching not fixing for a long time. So not only will this become extremely expensive in the very near future a good percentage of the people that know how to manage projects of this size will be gone. Good fucking luck!Do you agree we need to upgrade our infrastructure?
Should we pay for it or simply put the bill on the debt?
If we pay for it, how should we do that?
you must live in a shitty state,,
here is missouri things arent so bad outside the seasonal potholes and slow government workers,,,I-35W Mississippi River bridge - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
OMG I drove on Missouri roads last month.
What a mess. Seriously. Why can't they build a flat smooth road? I was literally bouncing down the road.
That is on top of roads so filled with cracks and potholes it was impossible to avoid the potholes and the roads were so crisscrossed with that black stuff to fill the cracks. Barely any of the original road showed.
Missouri was filthy dirty too. Especially in St. Louis. Wow. What a mess. And why don't they put proper signs on the road?
I couldn't wait to get out of Missouri.
Wow. What a mess. The best thing I can say about Missouri, it's not Oklahoma.
No, it is not possible to build smooth roads in a place like MO.
That is because the soil is clay, which shrinks and expands depending on moisture content, and they have periodic droughts and floods.
So then roads start smooth and get wavier over time.
The bulges make cracks, the water gets in, freezes, and that makes pot holes.
But roads are both state and federal concerns.
The feds collect all the gas tax to fix the roads, but they only then are willing to pay half of the repair costs.
The state has to come up with the other half.