Bad Pothole Season Coming
We were driving around a bit yesterday from job to job to job. And we noticed the streets are draining very poorly during the 24 hours or more of rain we've had.
It's the end of October. Winter freezing temperatures are right around the corner. We had a bit of fun tweaking Daely and Streets & San over poor plowing and salting last winter.
Anyone want to bet what the pothole season is going to look like in a few weeks? Especially since they skimped on road repairs all summer in anticipation of the Olympic "windfall."
It's the end of October. Winter freezing temperatures are right around the corner. We had a bit of fun tweaking Daely and Streets & San over poor plowing and salting last winter.
Anyone want to bet what the pothole season is going to look like in a few weeks? Especially since they skimped on road repairs all summer in anticipation of the Olympic "windfall."
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
31 Comments:
Why are half the sewers sinking?
In my personal car...I'll dodge potholes with the best of them as long as shortshanks plows the fucking streets so I can see them!!!!
In my squad...I'll try to hit every single one.
M a s t e r s !
A friend of mine who works for Dept. of Transportation says the city used the cheaper cold patch to fix last winter's potholes and never replaced it with hot patch, so it is all going to break up as soon as we have our first snow. If there were 100,000 potholes last winter, it will be 300,000 early winter.
Strap in- it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
They just finally fixed 111th and 103rd in Beverly/Mt. Greenwood...And now those roads will be shot again by spring time.
The city that WORKS.
I'm still waiting for Del Valle to pay me for tire/wheel damages my car sustained a year ago.
WTF! The City hasn’t fixed the potholes from last year yet!
Don't fret Little Tommy BYRNE will have all the potholes in the city filled with all the money he made with those hush hush sweet city contracts his buddy Da mare approved for him and his family back in the days of pre-ethics statements!!That runt should be rotting in a federal pen somewhere.
They'll fix them now.
Expect construction all-year round for the next three years. We're at the start of a golden-age for the Illinois asphalt mafia. Ray Lahood is making sure "da guys back in Illinoiz" prosper.
Aldermam Pope should try riding down Torrence Avenue. It is covered with steel plates currently and awaiting more!
Took a walk through Duhnam Park last week.They black topped all the walkways. They put it right over the already sinking, busted up cement walkways.Right before winter.It should be unsafe to run on again just before summer.
HOW MUCH DID LAVAR MAKE ON THIS PROJECT?
What are they going to do when the potholes don't just flatten peoples tires but swallow the whole car instead?
If the potholes swallow everyones cars, there won't be anyone to park and pay their life savings away at the parking meter boxes!
Anonymous said...
Expect construction all-year round for the next three years. We're at the start of a golden-age for the Illinois asphalt mafia. Ray Lahood is making sure "da guys back in Illinoiz" prosper.
10/24/2009 05:33:00 AM
Ray Lahood... could there be a more appropriate name for a criminal?
I still have an 8x6x10 foot hole deep sink with the sewer out in front of my house. Been that way for about 6 months now. Wonder how big it's going to get as the winter rolls in? Oh wait, the city can remove the plywood they put over it and fill it in with snow!
FUCK YOU DICKHEAD DALEY!
wait till the Tahoes start their ice dancing performance!!! Double salkows for everyone!!!
i noticed mike picardi did NOT take a pay cut when he went back to fleet.
HELLO NEWSPAPERS!!!
why is MIKE PICARDI getting paid the higher rate??
its in the 2010 budget, you can see it online.
him and tom byrne are at 157k a year.
plus toms double dipping getting a police pension.
so, about 300k for tommy boy.
and yet tommy boy will not allow any OT for his streets & san guys.
what a hypocrite!!!
keep buying GPS. thats the answer to everything.
Its going to be horrible ... CDOT is down crews and the powers that be are making the Depatement use "cold patch, high performance mix" DURING THE SUMMER !!!! ... it was to be used as a temp patch during the winter time in the extreme cold months ... CDOT used to have 9 districts all using HOT MIX from the plant, but now CDOT is ORDERED to use that cold shit.
PS
THANK YOU 8TH DISTRICT FOR ARRESTING THE JACK ASS WHO TRIED RUNNING ONE OF GUYS DOWN IN MY ALLEY FRIDAY MORNING. WOW !!! TALK ABOUT RESPONSE !!!
thought little tommy byrne took care of this LOL! another daley no brained hack!
Why do they keep using asphalt here? In Europe the roads are concrete. Year after year asphalt always fails.
Good luck if you think the city will pay for your vehicle damage from hitting a pothole! I hit one last winter, took photos, made an accident report, measured the pothole, had the motor club come out and change my tire to document the busted tire and rim. The cost to replace? $800.00. The city refuses to pay.
How many people in the sewer sinking wards are just going to re-elect Quinn, Stroger, Daley, aldermen, etc. again?
In my personal car...I'll dodge potholes with the best of them as long as shortshanks plows the fucking streets so I can see them!!!!
In my squad...I'll try to hit every single one.
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Damn good idea! We don't have a contract....do we? It's something to do in the mean time! TEAR IT UP!
Daley is on the job regarding pot holes. He'll personally check each and every reported pot hole himself. If he steps into the hole and you can no longer see him, he'll fix it, if not , it's just silly, silly to waste materials & manpower on minor inconviences.
amazing how the kennedy street problem hits the news and gets fixed...............but I have called in a sinking sewer in front of my house two years ago, verified through the aldermans office, and geez guess what......still not fixed
Its all being recorded on my trusty nideo.....the stuttering prick will be viewing hours of potholes not being filled or fixed come election time provided gratis from a loyal cpd officer.
Why are half the sewers sinking?
10/24/2009 12:08:00 AM
good question
Wait a second.... I seem to remember that the City received 200 Million from Obama and his “stimulus package” bullshit. I believe we have 12 Million set aside in the annual budget for the sole purpose of fixing potholes. Hmmm, seems to me with ass of that money, a shit-load more holes world be fixed!
(04 Apr 09) Chicago Tribune One of Chicago’s worst pothole-scarred streets was selected as the backdrop Saturday for Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley to outline nearly $200 million for city road repairs and other improvements included in a new statewide construction package.
You should see how much CTA got!
What's great is driving through my neighborhood, ditching pot holes and buckles in the pavement EVERYWHERE.
As soon as I cross over into a burb like Oak Lawn, the street are almost always PERFECT.
Each alderman controls an area the same size as your typical neighboring burb...They're about equivalent to a suburban mayor as far as power goes. How do suburban mayors(even shitty ones) keep their towns and roads nicer than the aldercreatures?
Does anybody remeber that group of people on a block on the westside that patched the potholes on their street.Did it on their own because the city wouldn't come out a do it. The news media was all followed up on how the hole repair worked out.over it. I'm surprised they never
cold patch, hot patch. it really does not matter much. if the underlying substrate is decaying, its just a band-aid.
and before you talk about concrete versus asphalt, poorly done concrete is worse than poorly done asphalt. the reason euorpean roads last so long has little to do with the use of concrete. its because they prepare the road bed better. Its not unusual for them to go done 8 feet or more with the gravel. its very expensive.
Each alderman controls an area the same size as your typical neighboring burb...They're about equivalent to a suburban mayor as far as power goes. How do suburban mayors(even shitty ones) keep their towns and roads nicer than the aldercreatures?
10/25/2009 02:06:00 AM
It's the workmanship and design/expense of the roads. Here in IL we pay a fortune and get garbage. In other places the price is commensurate with the design of the road.
Take Wisconsin for example. A lot of their rural county trunk "letter" roads are just asphalt on a bed of screened aggregate(s). Logging trucks and other heavy equipment uses these roads daily, and they go decades before they are totally torn up and repaired.
When there is accountability, people do a good job. When no-bid contracts are doled out and there's no quality control, you get shit. This is our problem. We have the money, we just don't know how to spend it. This is the hallmark of a Democrat-controlled government.
Whoever said that LAST winter's "bad pothole season" ever left?
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