Ron M. <rmorgan7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
|| The last few months I've been driving up South Lamar to work,
|| and I can't BELIEVE how ROUGH it is. It just beats the HELL
|| out of my car. It's like driving over 2 miles of speed bumps.
|| There's one spot that is easily a 4" vertical ridge going
|| across the pavement, sort of dark in color and hard to see.
|| This morning I slammed into it at 40 mph and was afraid I
|| broke something. Just driving along and WHAMMMMM!!!! it was
|| like running over a curb.
||
|| And it's not just South Lamar, it's all over town, even on
|| the new streets. For example, look at the brand, spanking new
|| pavement on Barton Springs Road, along there where you turn
|| off Lamar and go towards Zilker Park. They put a dozen stupid
|| manhole covers right SMACK in the wheel ruts, INSTEAD of in
|| the middle where your could straddle them, and on top of
|| that, they're horribly installed, very rough and uneven, with
|| pavement lips as high as 2". Is the concept of "quality
|| control" or "inspection" totally lost on these projects??????
|| I've been in many other cities where manhole covers were so
|| smoothly blended with the pavement you couldn't even feel
|| them.
||
|| Sorry, I just had to vent. Arggghhh SLAMMM!!! .... uh...
|| arggghhhh SLAMM!!BAM!!!! ....uugghh
||
|| Ron M.
Bicycle paths are more important... :-)
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