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Mehul @ Mar 10th 2008 11:15AM
Its the same story everywhere, not just Michigan. I live in the tri-state area and I see roads that have been made just 2 years ago already have cracks.
And dont even get me started on the construction that has been going on for 5 years to widen Route 18 and Route 1
Eric @ Mar 10th 2008 11:28AM
Trust me, it's not the same. I'm originally from NJ, but I've been in Ann Arbor for school for the past 4 years. The roads in NJ are buttery smooth when compared to the mess out here. You'd think everyone was still riding around in covered wagons on dirt trails.
fm @ Mar 10th 2008 12:53PM
I have to agree with Mehul.
Eric, have you even driven in Manhattan lately?
It's never been good but now it's horrible. The BEST part of NYC(I guess this could be true for most any city) is when they finally resurface a road, it'll often take less then a month for some other agency to open the road up and redo a water line, or put down some new gas pipe. Seriously! Can't they have some sort of cooperation! Say ConEd has to do some maintenance in a certain street, can't they do it BEFORE the city shells out thousands of dollars for nothing?
I'd also like to add PA in the list of offending states. I-80 and I-81 are pretty bad in certain areas. And at Blakeslee, PA, I've never seen a bridge take so long to go up. They said it'd take 14 monthes(?? for that small of a bridge?). Since they started beginning of Dec 06. Times up! But still it's not finished.
But I guess it's just the contractor making sure they have a job in the years to come.