The streets of Milwaukee

[vaskidmark]

24 posts and not one word about Connecticut's response to road repair.

And I'm not even from Connecticut!

"Road Legally Closed" reflective signs posted on barrels.

They can start or stop work at whatever point they want.  No liability if your ride gets trashed, as you were trespassing.  Cuts down on MVC insurance claims for the same reason.

Apparently they found the missing step:

1. Road needs repairs
2. Need to fund repairs
3. replace "?" with "Road Legally Closed"
4. Profit

stay safe.

[Monkeyleg]

If you want the funds to repair the roads in CT, just look in Chris Dodd's pocket. I'm pretty sure that's where they went.

[GigaBuist]

Welcome to Michigan!  Wear a helmet!

Stuff like this seems to happen every spring somewhere within a county or two of where I live.

[HankB]

I drive under Wisconsin Avenue just north of the Zoo interchange everyday, there's a support column painted with fluorescent paint under the bridge with a lot of concrete missing and rebar handing out in about 6' of vertical surface area.

Concrete missing and rebar exposed on the bridge supports? This was common in Chicago on (under?) the raised sections of I-55 - the Stevenson expressway - when I lived there some 30+ years ago. When I visited my old neighborhood in 2008, the streets were even worse than when I lived there (the residential area speedbumps didn't help) - patches on top of patches.

But it was a real eye opener when I went to Pasadena last year - the highways seemed to be falling apart. And THEY don't get the freeze/thaw cycling that northern cities like Chicago do. Where, exactly, is The Governator spending all that revenue he's taking in? Medicating, educating, and incarcerating illegal aliens?

[Strings]

Of all the places I've been, I would have to say that Chicago is the worst...

To the point that getting me INTO Chicago now requires sexual favors, or I don't go

[Viking]

i bet they're putting in green pavement, that will of course crumble in 2 or 3 years.

Which will then have to be repaired/replaced by the same guys who put it there in the first place. More $$$ in their pockets, and I'm sure some politicians get a nice cut of it as well...

[AJ Dual]

Concrete missing and rebar exposed on the bridge supports? This was common in Chicago on (under?) the raised sections of I-55 - the Stevenson expressway - when I lived there some 30+ years ago. When I visited my old neighborhood in 2008, the streets were even worse than when I lived there (the residential area speedbumps didn't help) - patches on top of patches.

But it was a real eye opener when I went to Pasadena last year - the highways seemed to be falling apart. And THEY don't get the freeze/thaw cycling that northern cities like Chicago do. Where, exactly, is The Governator spending all that revenue he's taking in? Medicating, educating, and incarcerating illegal aliens?

The big patches of exposed rebar, marked with day-glo spraypaint, at least here in Milwaukee, are repairs where they sandblasted/jack hammered away a bigger patch to re-coat the column with gunnite or whatever. It's actually the right way to do it.

What DOES NOT inspire confidence is the usual bureaucratic hurry up and wait, where they chip out the patch, then it sits there exposed to the elements for months until they fill it back in. 

[Perd Hapley]

Because someone had to do it:

As I walked out on the streets of Milwaukee,
As I walked out in Milwaukee one day,
I spied an old Monkeyleg a-cussin' the potholes,
A-cussing the pot-holes and hot as could be.

So beat the orange drum lowly,
And drive the car slowly...

[AJ Dual]

I've made a suggestion to Monkeyleg as to what he could do himself to fill those potholes, but he was afraid of picking up an indecency/exposure charge.

[Monkeyleg]

You'll have to excuse me, but I tend to get a bit testy when the streets are the worst I've ever seen, but millions of tax dollars are being siphoned off to crooked politicians, welfare queens, "poverty programs" and day care center operators.

[RaspberrySurprise]

What DOES NOT inspire confidence is the usual bureaucratic hurry up and wait, where they chip out the patch, then it sits there exposed to the elements for months until they fill it back in. 

It's even better when it happens on bridges in Florida, as in the ones in the OCEAN linking the Keys together.

Welcome to Michigan!  Wear a helmet!

Stuff like this seems to happen every spring somewhere within a county or two of where I live.

And I thought some of the roads in the UP were bad... then again maybe that IS in the UP.

[GigaBuist]

And I thought some of the roads in the UP were bad... then again maybe that IS in the UP.

Nope, that's Allegan county, not too far from Grand Rapids, MI.

[brimic]

but millions of tax dollars are being siphoned off to crooked politicians, welfare queens, "poverty programs" and day care center operators.

Well at least they are all democrats....

[TMM]

that's a massive sinkhole! how do those occur?

tmm

[GigaBuist]

that's a massive sinkhole! how do those occur?

It's not really a sink hole -- just the road being washed out after heavy rain in the spring.

[Boomhauer]

Concrete missing and rebar exposed on the bridge supports? This was common in Chicago on (under?) the raised sections of I-55 - the Stevenson expressway - when I lived there some 30+ years ago. When I visited my old neighborhood in 2008, the streets were even worse than when I lived there (the residential area speedbumps didn't help) - patches on top of patches.

But it was a real eye opener when I went to Pasadena last year - the highways seemed to be falling apart. And THEY don't get the freeze/thaw cycling that northern cities like Chicago do. Where, exactly, is The Governator spending all that revenue he's taking in? Medicating, educating, and incarcerating illegal aliens?

Ever watched the show called "Wrecked"? Available on hulu. Seems like every other episode their was a truck that was stuck under a bridge. They say on the show that Chicago's bridges are mismarked, poorly marked, or marked not at all and this causes some serious problems.

[220_SWIFT]

Davenport, Iowa, streets are awful.

Streets are awful is a bit of an understatement!  The streets in Moline are awful.  Davenport reminds me of a well used minefield, or artillery test range.  Of course, it doesn't help matters that some of the worst drivers in the world reside in the Quad Cities.

[P5 Guy]

The North East Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The hole thing is a pot hole.
  (and I did use the proper "hole" both times)