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.
>
It is one of the problems with having work done by the lowest
bidder.
--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX
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