$1 Million for This?
So evidently, no one in the Groot administration ever heard about seiche waves, winter storms or erosion. This was the bike path off Lake Shore Drive the other day:
A cool million dollars for this.
Seven months ago it looked like this:
While we're all for repair work, something a bit sturdier than asphalt should probably be used to prevent long term damage. After all, taxpayer dollars are getting damn scarce around these parts.
Labels: dumb ideas
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
83 Comments:
Groot, hope you got the receipt for the warranty of this business
Pretty sure Ken Griffith is paying for that. The same Republican who paid for the Hunchlabs in the districts.
More BS contracts and a waist of tax payers money. Groot and the Alderman without should be holding Groot accountable believe they have an endless supply of money.
Lake Michigan is a powerful force that is constantly trying to reclaim the areas that man has taken from it. The constant erosion of the concrete will never stop. After the Chicago fire, areas of the lake were claimed and filled in with the debris. Streeterville is built over the Lake. So are areas on LSD & high rises built right on the water. Erosion everywhere with water flooding in. Bad for the taxpayers as this costs us plenty for maintenance every year. But great for the connected contractors who do the work and then make campaign donations to our Democrat politicians who in turn reward those contractors with more work. Yes, that asphalt won’t last long, and they know it, but it’s done for biker & runner vote. Should have left the lakefront all beach then there would be some much area you would have no problem socially distancing to please our guardians Lightfoot & Pritzker!!!!
i'm all for retiring our esteemed mayor
I like the chain link fence holding back the waves
I hope they are at least recycling the asphalt?
With asphalt that new, you don't need much new asphalt oil, sand, or aggregate.
I am sure that the City got a great deal on the repaving. / s
Looks like something groot could patrol on her big wheel.
Why Asphalt?
Marshall R. Thompson and Kevin Burke III's Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association (IAPA)
Donations influence Illinois politics.
https://theasphaltpro.com/articles/meet-iapas-kevin-burke-iii/
Imbeciles running the government.
LOL SCC... "Sturdy" does not equate to FAT ENVELOPES...
FAT
ENVELOPES
MATTER
So asphalt it is!
Why do bikers need an additional layer of asphalt on top of what appears to be concrete. They can’t ride on concrete? From the picture it appears to be inches from the water. Who came up with that stupid idea? Are they new in town? Unfamiliar with the fluctuations of Lake Michigan?
Chicago The City Of Make a Work. Chicago Values make sure this gets done over and over, got to keep those campaign donations coming in from the connected contractors and unions. Brilliant use of the citizens tax dollars rebuilding a bike path nobody is allowed to use because stupid Mayor keeps lakefront closed.
That was funded privately (Citadel CEO Ken Griffin), but still it is a shoddy use of his money!
This winter will take care of that! By the way, they did a better job on the bike path than our own streets!!!
Funny how Groot keeps pulling millions out of her ass!! I thought Chicago had no money?? Why isn't the fake news media covering this and telling us honest taxpayers how much this is costing us??
Lori and her little band of multi culti experts are not too smart. Bet that asphalt company is laughing their asses off.
I remember stupid dick durbin blaming president trump and climate change...
Some contractor is laughing his ass off on the way to the bank. They love selling the same project twice.
The new County bike path in Forest Glen becomes submerged after every good rain, especially where it parallels the river, there a bike goof can be swept away because the trail is at least a foot below the water. Only a matter of time before some twit's little kid gets sent downtown clutching their handle bars in the strong current. Frost alone will lift enough of that trail to require repavement.
The second photo looks like my street here on the N/W side.
Much more important than buying us some new cars.
Something sturdier than asphalt is nit allowed in Illinois. This keeps the clouted outfits happy repairing roadways all summer every year
It's all about the mighty tax payer dollars. Use asphalt as a bandage, when the waves come in it will tear up the asphalt and the same political company comes out again to make more repairs. I agree how about using cement?
The pro of this is if it was concrete it would be about 5 million dollars. The Con of this is that they will be repairing it every year because the city never learns and always goes the cheap route.
Everything in Chicago is built to crumble; how the hell do they keep these patronage construction jobs going in time for each election?
6 months from now, it will look like the second picture again.
Not saying this is the case here but many times asphalt is laid as a prep before they pour concrete.
Lets play PAD the contract......
Math test:
How many brown envelopes are in a Chicago construction project?
The Lakefront is closed,the Schools are closed,local businesses are closed,the Courts are still 95% closed,Police Officers assigned to my Beat are sent to the west side every night.When does my Tax Rebate Check arrive?
This is what happens when persons with political science or communication degrees are put in charge of engineers and construction workers.
Whoever has the asphalt contract is thrilled!!!!!!!
Another waste of money was the 606, an old railroad line made into a running and bicycle path. What a waste of money!!!!!
What a joke
that's all gory lightfoot could afford.
graft is like a haircut. take a little off the top.
not these fuckers.
And the span over the Chicago river for the lakefront bike/jogging path has taken longer to build than San Francisco's golden gate bridge...
I'll repeat the again for Chicago's "reporters" and our phony inspector general...
THE BIKE/PEDESTRIAN PATH OVER THE CHICAGO RIVER AT LAKE SHORE DRIVE HAS TAKEN LONGER TO BUILD THAN SAN FRANCISCO'S GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE!!!
Thanks for the donation philathripist Ken Griffen...you got ripped off
Common sense is rare nowadays.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Pretty sure Ken Griffith is paying for that. The same Republican who paid for the Hunchlabs in the districts.
7/22/2020 12:27:00 AM
That is 100% correct.
That's the last stretch of pavement i'm buying.
I'll be in Indiana and Missouri by the time that thing fails this winter.
FULL
Just figured this out now......
The bikers, in every U.S. city, are just unwitting pawns
in a game where the mayor funnels paving contracts to
political donors and supporters.
Makes no sense otherwise for diversion of that much
manpower and resources. It's a giant "Make Work" project.
Just like the annual pothole patching.
Defund the bike paths
Blue collar welfare.
And they have contracts.
12:57 AM
biker and runner vote
What a joke! It's for the Union vote.
Vanecko Paving?
Eddie Johnson Asphalt & Uniforms?
Sealed bids?
(You betcha! Manilla enveloped sealed with Scotch tape.)
Geez Larry is really stupid. Why doesn't she get advice from the Fat Ass who knows a thing or two about construction, Operation Toilet Bowl. J-oBese not only knows about gorging but is an expert on how to save money during construction.
City + Lake + Politics = Mistake On The Lake
Chicago, Cleveland
Let’s see, path and beaches basically closed for the season, path just reopened two weeks ago and only now they’re getting around to paving it. Wonder how long that six figure repair patch took? Maybe FlexSeal would have been better.
No regard for the leaching petroleum, crumbling sediments making it into the protected waters, dilution rate and high water bills will cover that cost. What happened to Goin’Green?
Asphalt (ash-fault to S&S smooters and tampers) is a third cheaper than concrete, which can’t be overlaid successfully. But that asphalt will be replaced 50 times before any concrete would start to spall, unless it’s low bid concrete. One thing for sure, if they used the same Low Bid donor that did my side street, it should last until April before S&S sends out a pothole crew.
It’s about jobs.
Like Larri’s city hall office renovation last August. $220,000 in TIFF and she’s been there about 4 months out of the last 10 because of being closed for the flu or she’s either out of town during turbulent and challenging times.
I'm sure we all know what's going to painted in big letters on that new canvas.
Scc, if you use something sturdier that asphalt, it will last a long time and then it will not be necessary to repair it very often. If this happens all the connected asphalt companies will not be able to fleece the citizens of this shooting gallery out of additional tax monies.
If Governor Fatso does a cannonball into Lake Michigan off the pier, the lake will rise and the entire city will be flooded!
Years ago they put down asphalt to spruce up the lakefront before the Domocratic convention and it peeled right up with the next big storm. You would think they would have learned from experience this time. Kind of like lessons learned on how to control a riot from how G8 was handled.
Waste of money!!!!!
Naturally, no Illinois politician would ever dream of going to Duluth to find out what they've done to their lakefront to help it withstand Lake Superior's storms out of the northeast. Doing so might be....umm......more efficient.
Asphalt isn’t GREEN. The socialist Mayor just polluted the lake.
Seems like the "EPA" wasn't involved..... asphalt runoff into the lake????
Are you actually suggesting that the city should NOT repeat previous mistakes? You do realize that repeated kickbacks rely upon this cycle of dumbassery.
Illinois leads the nation in $$ per mile of road repaired.
2:18AM.....
Correct!
I demand an Environmental Impact Statement! I demand the Feds designate this a Toxic Waste EPA Superfund Clean up Site!
Can we talk about how the vindictive little sawed off runt continuing to NOT fix the erosion on the running/walking lakefront trail between Fullerton to North Ave. Beach will lead to the weakening of LSD?
Lakefront maintenance must be done on a yearly basis but the little clown thinks she's punishing Northsiders by leaving this part of the trail in the unkempt state that it is right now.
Great, it will match the parking lot of every new police station built in the last ten years. That’s how I stay regular, driving thru the ditches at the stations.
The new asphalt is a nice new invitation to the crazy bikers who use the lakefront path to train for the Tour de France. The bikers pay no attention to the people who are actually trying to keep to the proper lanes and just yell at anyone they think is in their way. The sidewalk that goes over the Outer Drive Bridge and then joins the lakefront trail at Ohio St. Beach is the worst for potential-pedestrian collisions.
Vanecko asphalt and paving company
Oh not for the City's Deepest donor's. Those coffers are never ending. I hear stories of a Prince, a Golden Goose, magic fairy dust, (well they may import the magic fairy dust.)
The chain link fence is to provide that extra layer of mayhem when a wave plows the asphalt & chain link fence onto the drive.
They would've been better off and build the sea wall a few feet higher.
Vanecko recycling will sell it back to the city for 2 million
Some clouted contractor got the deal for this year and for god knows how long because it will be another shitty job that will erode before the end of the year. Money is no object because Groot will tax the shit out of everyone except the Community and clouted friend and political hacks. These types of scheme look great for the propaganda media but hundreds die by gang violence and all you get is lip service from blubber lips Larry. Laughing at Larry as she sternly scolds everyone as if this political little shit is believed only by the foolish and the activist media.
All else just point, laugh and walk away.
Looks like the enlarged fragments of a GM car frame from
the Rust Belt exposed to 70's winter salt. You could break off
chunks with your bare hands, just like an oatmeal cookie.
And the body shop man said: time to get some Southern rails,
son.
1:07 AM
That chain link is to keep the Bangers from rolling dice
at 3 AM and blasting The Drifters on the boom box.
Down On The Boardwalk.
Why do bikers need an additional layer of asphalt on top of what appears to be concrete?
7/22/2020 05:05:00 AM
It is memory asphalt. It is softer and more forgiving when a bicyclist(s) takes a tumble.
By the time GROOT opens up lake front, winter/waves will eat up the new bike path and it's going to look like picture#2.
Sure could have used this in my alley!
What a stupid waste of money!
But our Pension is going broke!
It was the perfect mountain bike path in the before picture why did they ruin it?
Groot, or someone else, pocketed that million.....
An asphalt job doesn't cost that much, no way.
I gotta guy who'd do the whole thing for about $1,500.... in fact that looks like him walking in the photo!
Hey Trump, please put the kibosh to this bullshit.
Another waste of money was the 606,an old railroad line made into a running and bicycle path. A magnet for robberies and shootings.
We need these demoRATs out of our department and out of our city ASAP !!!
We are on the fucking brink of hell being dictated to by a fucking troll and supported by other trolls like big barb, spenc, talley, cato, margolis .......
Black Asphalt Matters
Anonymous said...
Groot, hope you got the receipt for the warranty of this business
Are you kidding? We know what will happen. The day after the check clears the business will close.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Math test:
How many brown envelopes are in a Chicago construction project?
7/22/2020 08:09:00 AM
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"I don't know shit." or
"Don't say shit on the phone." would both be acceptable answers.
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