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Ya got ta love the latest reasons, for the higher gas prices in Michigan!

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PTsideshow:
Yes John that is true but they just cut funding for road repair again so we to are return to to olden times of holey roads, and some that look like unpaved. Including the freeways some with so many patches on them the sections look like the suspension test road sections. :doh:
Got ta love progress, it seems that it might be full circle. breaking rocks into a useful size with larger rocks. :lol: :lol: :lol:
glen

bogstandard:
We have the same sort of thing here on our B and some A class roads.

We have to pay the government a road tax every year, depending on the size, type and engine capacity of the vehicle. Varying from a few pounds for a moped, to many thousands of pounds for an artic. I should think the average motorist would pay about 200 squid a year for each vehicle he owns.

This is supposed to go towards maintaining our roads, but over the years, it has been classed as just another tax, and I think it just goes into the general tax coffers, and then they just allocate a little of it for road maintenance to the cheapest bidder for the contract. Crap contractors, crap roads that need patching up every year because they only do a patch up job in the first place, rather than a good quality repair. Dig the loose bit out, wack a bit of tarmac in the hole, and wait for it to break up, then repeat from the beginning. OK for a quickfix for a few months, a very false economy over the long term.

Bogs

Bernd:

--- Quote ---Dig the loose bit out, wack a bit of tarmac in the hole, and wait for it to break up, then repeat from the beginning.
--- End quote ---

That's called "job security".   :lol:  :lol:

Bernd

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