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That One Person @ Mar 10th 2008 4:12PM

Berne...funny you mention the patching method. I work for one of the many cities outside Detroit and we do patching. It sucks...plain and simple. And if we aren't on a busy street, it's sort of funny watching people swerve.

But the guys that you are talking about are most likely county workers. They suck. We usually see them out and about patching and they will do a couple small holes here and there and miss a huge one that can easily mess up some tires and/or suspensions. Fortunately for us, we have supervisors that get on our butts and we do EVERYTHING. And what is hilarious is that the county guys have a guy out there who POINTS to holes.

County workers are lazy. We tamp our patches down (usually with a shovel...it works) and we clean up our mess. The county guys love the leave speed bumps. Then we go around with our trucks and roll them some more. It's pointless doing it in the winter cuz the ice just rips the stuff up. But there have been stretches of roads that we have done that if you went down them before we patched them and then after, you would notice a huge difference.

Another interesting point: I was reading an article in the Free Press a while back about how the majority of the money to fix our roads actually goes to Northern Michigan and not to the roads that actually need it (Detroit area, etc.). And if you have every driven on I-94 in Taylor over Telegraph Road, look at the money wasted on that stupid bridge they built. That money could have been spent to repair roads in and around Detroit.