Potholes

Cheese and Rice! In today's weekly freep article about the return of the Jets, someone in the comments section is complaining that money would be better spent fixing potholes.

Are they really that bad?

I've been driving in this great city since 1993. I've hit the occasional rough spot in the road, but never anything that killed my car or forced me to get anything fixed related to my wheels that was outside of a normal replacement schedule. I've never woken up to find the street has swallowed my car into a massive sinkhole.

St. James Street is the only area of the city where I've noticed some work needed to be done, and even then it's nowhere near as bumpy as some of the gravel roads I learned to drive on in Dauphin.

What am I doing wrong? How is it that I notice people complaining about potholes more than I do the potholes themselves?

Secondly, why is it that people can't realize that if we fixed EVERY dent in the road, we'd probably have no money left!

No Jets! We need money for potholes!
No Helicopters! We need money for potholes!
No Pothole Fixing! We need money for potho-- oh...

End of rant. Sorry people. Complaining about complainers is futile, but I'm fed up with people who can't see past the hood of their car.

Are the potholes really that bad?

there are some places that are fairly bad... but not so much that our roads our "crumbling" as some people would have us believe

I am curious why people are assuming that public money is going towards the return of NHL hockey.
I always love how the media rounds up the usual suspects that are always against ANYTHING that is being done or contemplaeted and their reply is ALWAYS "Fix the roads first"

In all fairness.....

Have ya driven north on Pembina lately?

There are some that would be annoying if driving, but outright dangerous when biking.

One in particular just south of confusion corner - if you hit it on a bike, your front wheel is done and you are flying into traffic.Mind you, spend the money on dedicated bike infrastructure and I won't care about potholes

But......

Since it is a private group that is looking to buy the team, what the hell does that have to do with fixing potholes?

How about this ? Spend more fixing potholes and less on redundant LRT studies.

The curb lane on north-bound Pembina is bad. Not so much potholes though as very uneven surface. Taylor is bad. As is Marion. But on average, potholes aren't that big a deal.

What I'd like to see is us fixing the roads properly before throwing a whack of money each year with the usual temporary fixes on the same sections...

The southbound median lanes on Pembina after the Jubilee overpass have huge chunks missing from the wide concrete curbs that get smashed by the snow plows. I am sure they will be fixing them again this summer, or patching them. I have always wondered what would happen if they did away with the curbs

Drive west down Dugald road from Plessis to Lagimodiere.

USApegger wrote:The southbound median lanes on Pembina after the Jubilee overpass have huge chunks missing from the wide concrete curbs that get smashed by the snow plows. I am sure they will be fixing them again this summer, or patching them. I have always wondered what would happen if they did away with the curbs

I've often wondered why they use high curbs. It must make snow removal a pain.

In Toronto the curbs are sloped. It seems to me that would make snow removal easier and more difficult to destroy the curbs with the snow removal equipment.

Maybe this is another case of "this is the way we've always done it" mentality.

Mantha. You've got to get out more.

The main streets have been looked after reasonably well (kinda'), but most other streets are very, very bad....patched patches in many cases.

I have an issue with the way the city does repairs. Imo, they suck at it.

A couple of years ago, they did an overlay to my street. The following spring a 8' x 1' piece of the overlay (less than an inch thick I might add) came off. I called to complain and they sent someone out to do a repair.

They fixed half of it and left the other half. They haven't come back and it's been a year.

Why would you fix half a fricken pothole???

Oh....and the relationship between potholes and hockey in this province....the government funds both here.

A CBC report says Chipman and Thomson will get financial help from the Manitoba government for the purchase price, which is said to be US$165 million.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/deal-to-keep-coyotes-in-desert-fluid-93182949.html