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Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 17, 2010 | LAUREN ETTER

Posted on 07/17/2010 5:59:50 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: livius
The comparison is apt. Deterioration of infrastructure was what the porkulus allegedly was to target, but obviously that was a sham. Letting the roads go is a visible and undeniable indicator of obama's intention to preside over America's decline.
61 posted on 07/17/2010 6:54:36 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: meyer
I would say that they have some huge prioritization issues.

What's the city's shooting count up to for 2010? Seems like I hear about a shooting every night over there....

62 posted on 07/17/2010 6:55:01 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: reaganaut1; Willie Green; SoothingDave
Counties in ... Pennsylvania have begun downgrading asphalt roads to cheaper chip-and-seal road, also known as "poor man's pavement."

The real news here is that PA roads were ever anything better than chip-and-seal.

63 posted on 07/17/2010 6:55:22 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: snowsislander
Letting our transportation infrastructure erode is a very bad idea.

That's because marxist bottom feeders don't care about good or bad ideas, they only care about getting their way and their idiotic agenda.

While its true that not every road needs pavement, every road does need maintenance. The choo choo marxists don't want taxes to fall to a level equal to the required upkeep costs of the roads. They want those roads to fade into memory and force people to use the trains. Meanwhile less cars will mean less cattle to milk to fund their failroad and eventually they'll go seeking to leech off somebody else.
64 posted on 07/17/2010 6:57:52 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

ROFL!


65 posted on 07/17/2010 7:00:53 AM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

66 posted on 07/17/2010 7:02:14 AM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: boomop1

Michigan is Blue. . . When visiting a friend in a Michigan suburban community (where there are some gravel roads at the request of the affluent home owners) I was surprised to see a number of roads graveled. On our way home, I asked my husband if we could drive into Detroit and was shocked to see many roads in the city were not paved. Interesting.


67 posted on 07/17/2010 7:06:53 AM PDT by mia
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To: martin_fierro
The real news here is that PA roads were ever anything better than chip-and-seal.

I always thought "chip-and-seal" was something they did to the asphalt roads to try to make them last longer.
But we also had dirt roads that they soaked with crappy oil to keep the dust down.
And while other places had gravel roads, we had "cinder roads" in Pittsburgh (which was a good/cheap way of getting rid of the cinders from the still mills anat. Cinders were also used on all the other roads during the winter instead of salt.)

68 posted on 07/17/2010 7:07:46 AM PDT by Willie Green (Save Money: Build High-Speed Rail & Maglev and help permanently ground Air Force One!!!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

You are right on with this...the indoctrination centers of the left (public schools ) are considered sacred institutions even though the product has been failing since being unionized in the 40s...


69 posted on 07/17/2010 7:10:19 AM PDT by databoss
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To: reaganaut1

Atlas shrugged.


70 posted on 07/17/2010 7:13:46 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the Right Stuff!)
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To: databoss
...even though the product has been failing since being unionized in the 40s...

Deliberately. Check out a book called the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyte. It's available on line for free now. Ms. Iserbyte is a former muckty-muck with the Department of (re)Education turned whistle blower. She uses documents obtained through the FOIA that cover a span of over 60 years to prove her case. It's a real eye opener and should be required reading for anyone who is a parent or anyone who is wondering why there are so many functionally illiterate people wandering around in our society.....

71 posted on 07/17/2010 7:15:36 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: Willie Green

“Cinders were also used on all the other roads during the winter instead of salt.”

I recall bashing my knuckles against those ciders, while riding the Flexible Flyer, when a large chunk was left on the road. My kids love The Sled.


72 posted on 07/17/2010 7:17:53 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: cripplecreek

Pennsylvania’s roads have been a joke for years. But Fast Eddie just got millions of dollars from the feds which he is going to use for homages to Murtha and Specter.


73 posted on 07/17/2010 7:19:36 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: martin_fierro

And I thought PA was the only state dumb enough to think spreading oil and chips was an alternative to fixing the roads properly!

The potholes assume their prior existence after about 5 days of settling.


74 posted on 07/17/2010 7:20:21 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: 3catsanadog

No, he just borrowed the money for the Specter and Murtha museums. We’ll have to pay it back and more.


75 posted on 07/17/2010 7:22:06 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Willie Green

PennDOT still uses cinders in the winter, but now they call it “anti-skid material.”


76 posted on 07/17/2010 7:22:50 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Roccus
One of our local VFD's bought a new "crash truck" for $400,000. West Virginia is his bond money for purchases such as this, and the County repays it out of property taxes. They already had two crash trucks, and a dozen other assorted fire and emergency vehicles.

I was curious when it was described to me as being one of a kind, and they had designed it to their specifications. It seems that what it unique is their front bumper was extended to make a toolbox to keep their hydraulics and other stuff.

The guy just looked at me kind of funny when I asked what they expect to happen if the truckers off the road, down the side of one of our steep hills, and plows into a tree headlong?Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

My road is graveled. It is wretched when it snows or ices up, but that gravel gives a certain amount of grip on the steep hill where I live. Except during the 3 foot snow in February, my Windstar van was just as useful as my four-wheel-drive explorer. when it's that deep, you sit in the house by a fire, and watch the idiots drive by with their lifted redneck limousines.


77 posted on 07/17/2010 7:23:03 AM PDT by WVKayaker (“The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.” -Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay)
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To: reaganaut1

Blade Runner:

Flying cars with tires for the cops,

Bicycles for the sheeple, all of them. Millions of them.

Quote:

“They say you Blade Runner”


78 posted on 07/17/2010 7:23:22 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: reaganaut1

I remember when the clinton’s used to drone on and on about “it’s for the children” why they did anything. Now the libs have kicked the kids under the bus and made it all about themselves.


79 posted on 07/17/2010 7:27:18 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Stimulus ~ Response)
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To: stevio

As long as they don’t get a lot of traffic, especially heavy trucks. Most of the roads in NM are chip/seal as they call it here and work well, but truck traffic can tear them apart overnight.


80 posted on 07/17/2010 7:28:48 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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