Comments on: Trying for a different perspective on potholes http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/ Travel along with our transportation geek Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:54:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: botski http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13645 botski Thu, 08 May 2008 20:56:12 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13645 With that pothole, I see potential for a oceanic diorama. All you need is a lot of blue jello and some of those cheese fish snacks (dont put them in until the jello has started to form a bit or they all come to the top!). With that pothole, I see potential for a oceanic diorama. All you need is a lot of blue jello and some of those cheese fish snacks (dont put them in until the jello has started to form a bit or they all come to the top!).

]]> By: Roadguy http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13644 Roadguy Thu, 08 May 2008 19:19:36 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13644 JH: The cartoon logo of me reflects my actual size. JH: The cartoon logo of me reflects my actual size.

]]> By: Snowman http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13642 Snowman Thu, 08 May 2008 18:37:02 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13642 This is what gradually happens when we make the choice to move from a high-tax, high-service state to a middling, muddle along state. I don't love paying taxes--my property taxes have gone up 150% in 12 years, but as a state we really blew it by not indexing the gas tax to inflation a decade or more ago. And we aren't going to get indexing as long as a certain anti-tax person grips his red pen tightly in St. Paul. This is what gradually happens when we make the choice to move from a high-tax, high-service state to a middling, muddle along state.

I don’t love paying taxes–my property taxes have gone up 150% in 12 years, but as a state we really blew it by not indexing the gas tax to inflation a decade or more ago.

And we aren’t going to get indexing as long as a certain anti-tax person grips his red pen tightly in St. Paul.

]]> By: Monte http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13641 Monte Thu, 08 May 2008 16:14:59 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13641 I recall reading a possibly apocryphal stories years ago. There was the mother of all potholes in a street, and the city ignored repeated requests to fix it. Finally a resident planted flowers and a small tree in it. It was fixed the next day. I just had to replace the broken sway bar joints in my Cherokee. You'd think something designed as tough as a that would be immune to potholes, but apparently not. I recall reading a possibly apocryphal stories years ago. There was the mother of all potholes in a street, and the city ignored repeated requests to fix it. Finally a resident planted flowers and a small tree in it. It was fixed the next day.

I just had to replace the broken sway bar joints in my Cherokee. You’d think something designed as tough as a that would be immune to potholes, but apparently not.

]]> By: lovetodrivegirl http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13640 lovetodrivegirl Thu, 08 May 2008 16:02:17 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13640 Steve K.'s comment is closer than you think. My brother-in-law from Wisconsin told me recently that his area is not going to be able to afford the upkeep that Wisconsinites are used to having done every year on their roadways. There's no money to keep cutting the grass, fix all the potholes, clean the streets. At first I was shocked when he told me that, then I wondered if other areas are experiencing the same thing. Next thing you know, we're going to have an "Adopt A Pothole" like we now have "Adopt A Highway" here in MN. Wouldn't that be weird. I have no clue how to fill a pothole. I wouldn't mind learning, but currently that knowledge is not in my head. Steve K.’s comment is closer than you think. My brother-in-law from Wisconsin told me recently that his area is not going to be able to afford the upkeep that Wisconsinites are used to having done every year on their roadways. There’s no money to keep cutting the grass, fix all the potholes, clean the streets. At first I was shocked when he told me that, then I wondered if other areas are experiencing the same thing.

Next thing you know, we’re going to have an “Adopt A Pothole” like we now have “Adopt A Highway” here in MN. Wouldn’t that be weird. I have no clue how to fill a pothole. I wouldn’t mind learning, but currently that knowledge is not in my head.

]]> By: Daomadan http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13637 Daomadan Thu, 08 May 2008 14:13:27 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13637 I love the perspective in that photograph. It's just...waiting there...waiting for the next tire...next perfectly balanced alignment...to destroy! I sense a new B-movie: Attack of the Killer Potholes. I love the perspective in that photograph.

It’s just…waiting there…waiting for the next tire…next perfectly balanced alignment…to destroy!

I sense a new B-movie: Attack of the Killer Potholes.

]]> By: shruti http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13636 shruti Thu, 08 May 2008 13:48:44 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13636 Crapcam is no longer crapcam, Roadguy! This is a pretty sweet--and scary--picture. Crapcam is no longer crapcam, Roadguy! This is a pretty sweet–and scary–picture.

]]> By: Steve K. http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13634 Steve K. Thu, 08 May 2008 13:25:27 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13634 This isn't going to help things either. http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_9175487?nclick_check=1 St. Paul decideds the streets just aren't worth it. Well, at least I will be able to see Ford Parkway crumble back in to gravel. It's most of the way there already. This isn’t going to help things either.

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_9175487?nclick_check=1

St. Paul decideds the streets just aren’t worth it.

Well, at least I will be able to see Ford Parkway crumble back in to gravel. It’s most of the way there already.

]]> By: backwards k http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13633 backwards k Thu, 08 May 2008 12:45:14 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13633 Hallmark gets a hold of this, and we'll be having National Pothole Appreciation Day. Hallmark gets a hold of this, and we’ll be having National Pothole Appreciation Day.

]]> By: JH http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13631 JH Thu, 08 May 2008 11:11:53 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/roadguy/2008/05/08/trying-for-a-different-perspective-on-potholes/#comment-13631 Roadguy, either this is a very deep pot hole or.... well, I thought you were taller. Roadguy, either this is a very deep pot hole or…. well, I thought you were taller.

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