Here is something that deeply concerns me. Winnipeg has long battled potholes and the root causes. Yet despite two opportunities the Winnipeg bureaucracy can't seem to get their collective heads out of their collective asses.
Why did the public works department not respond to the mayor's request? Why, after 100 years of fricked up roads, has this city not discovered a better solution?
The City of Winnipeg has abandoned a plan to find better ways to patch potholes in favour of trying to improve the way it maintains all of its roads, bridges, sewers and other assets.
During the spring of 2009, when Winnipeg suffered through its worst pothole season in recent memory, city council's executive policy committee asked the public works department to assess the way it patches potholes and consider ways to speed up the job.
The pothole report failed to come back to EPC in September and again in January. So on Wednesday, Mayor Sam Katz's inner circle voted to forget about it and allow the public works department more time to develop a broader "asset management system" instead.
"Pothole patching is temporary. Everyone has to realize it's a Band-Aid..." Katz told reporters. "We're getting to the point where repairing is not an option. It's time to address the real problem: The decay of our roads. We need some major work done."
By: Bartley Kives Winnipeg Free Press
Why did the public works department not respond to the mayor's request? Why, after 100 years of fricked up roads, has this city not discovered a better solution?
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