and a city that pays and pays cost overruns and doesn't hold the contractor
to contract standards ...
"Robert Allison" <robert272@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
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> Robert Allison Rimshot, Inc.
> Georgetown, TX
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