"Ron M." 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.
I always thought that the roads in Rhode Island were among the nation's
worst examples but am now convinced that Austin is not lacking in this
respect.
But, compassion has its price and the money that should be going into
road repair/maintenance is sadly finding its way to to social
ingratiating programs for our "less fortunate" citizens.
A goal of feeling "good" is much more important than *not* feeling bumps
in the road...
JT
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