Where I'm from, they just send 2-3 guys in a government issue pickup truck with a bag of asphalt chunks, some shovels, and a propane torch to "fix" potholes.
That's because where I'm from the construction guys who are supposed to fix it, milk that job for as long as possible so that the job is still open and they have to get paid for it. Realistically they could fix it probably in less than a week but they will keep it going for months at a time if necessary
I heard about dude wandering around with a spray can spraying phallic shapes onto potholes and getting them fixed that way and I've been genuinely curious to see if that works but I don't want to go to jail for vandalism so I'm really scared to do it. I don't know if that's just because I'm shy or what but that's the truth.
There is a old meme about driving sober vs drunk in America vs Russia And in Michigan, you Ether drive like a sober Russian/drunk American. Or risk a immediate mechanic bill
The fact that they always say every vehicle, from smart cars to tractor trailers, has to be road worthy to avoid fines and such, and the roads don't have to be vehicle worthy is insane.
Yesterday, I Found out that I legally cannot drive a gokart on public roads In the state of Maryland. Now how am I supposed to go to grocery stores and such safely!?
My Mama said they let roads get so bad was so it could tear up vehicles. Then you have get it fixed and they get more tax$...which they don't even fix the roads with.
@@thebludragonfly68 the way our entire government is funded is absolutely insane. We have Congress and politicians all around who vote for their own wage increases, and all the facilities run on a “use it or lose it” system which just creates wasteful and unnecessary spending while also ignoring things that actually need the funding. Our taxes are spent about as inefficient as they possibly can be
@@Sarara14 Unfortunately, the fuckers demonized public transport into the ground. Besides, a mom don't need a car the size of a small tank to get her kids to school, that due to the wonderful planning of American cities, is half an hour away by car.
I worked for a good road & utilty company. They couldn't get city or state contracts because they insisted on overseeing the engineering requirements and guaranteeing their work to an agreed standard and outcome. So we did a lot of schools and businesses, because they like working with a business that has been in business for nearly a hundred years and has a track record, and don't want to have to have a road or parking lot redone every couple of years! It really opened my eyes. Now, when I see a road being re-done, I am eyeballing the road bed every day at every stage, and sometimes inviting people to see what is being done wrong and heckling the State inspectors.
I had similar experiences in government contracting. Sometimes I'd sit down and realize I could easily do the job for half the price and double the quality if every rule and regulation wasn't specifically designed to knee cap such efforts
I'm going to quit my job as a communication technician and go be a State Road Inspector. I'll just put I don't know what the fuck I'm doing at the top of my resume. Shit, they might even make me president!
@@keatomic or get a job on a road crew. They're always needing more people to lean on shovels, people to stand around in circles with 9 other coworkers while they all watch 1 guy work slowly, and equipment operators who sit in their equipment all day while staring off into space and occasionally driving into the middle of the road during rush hour
@@keatomic There's a lot to study, to do it right! But good luck! State road inspectors usually don't know shit from Shinola when they start, so you'll fit right in!
@@JenDeyan and making sure the rest of us are always desperate enough to be exploited. After all they aren't going to clean up after themselves, or do any actual labor, and who else would otherwise, unless there was no other choice.
Yep. Much more lucrative for middle men to fund wars for petrol rights overseas to get the oil to make the asphalt vs creating quality with the resources we have so we don't need more of it. America is just a machine to consume 😢💸
Especially here in Michigan. We slacked off for 40 years and now in the past 4 years, things have really been moving for roadwork. I wonder what changed? It couldn't possibly be the 40 straight years of Republican leadership in the state Congress. Construction has been annoying, but it's nice to see things getting better.
@@julianmitchell3035Things went smooth when the other game failed a few seasons back, but everything went to shit when that massive cyber attack happened a while later.
Our potholes are so bad you could bury someone in them. It got so bad they even closed on one of the side streets and my dad even fucked up his car on them.
My fellow Americans, if you are tired of bad roads in your state, remember to vote in your local elections. Most of the roads you are driving on are maintained by either your state government or the local city/town government. Reach out to your reps and let ‘em know this shit is ass.
How many years we done heard this? How many years we done read this? How many chances we all had to get our roads patched in each of our areas? The fuck is even going on in them offices that our shit STILL ain't fixed yet???
@@windspank530 considering the low rates of turnout in state and local elections, people haven’t been hearing it enough. It seems like most people can’t name their state governors let alone their state representatives. And that’s not even considering the even fewer number of people who know their local government. The reason you keep seeing this? No one cares enough to change.
They don’t do shit about anything at the state level unless they can get federal funding for the project. They DO NOT CARE About you About me About anyone Unless the right wheels are greased and the right pockets are padded. 💸💸💸💸💸
A typical american work week: 4:59pm - Road worker: "Not yet. Wait for it..." 5:00pm Rush hour - Road worker: "Now! CLOSE ALL LANES NOW! Ain't nobody going to make it home for dinner on my watch!"
I'm from Michigan. We used to be considered as having some of the best roads in the world. Now we have bridges with plywood screwed to the bottom to catch the crumbling concrete and keep it from falling on the cars driving on the expressway at 70mph underneath, with a few bridges so bad that they have steel netting to catch the plywood when the concrete it's screwed into begins to crumble.😔💀
The transition from I75 in Ohio to Michigan is nuts. I'm Canadian (from Manitoba), been around a good chunk of emthe eastern half of North America by semi truck and the west half by pickup truck while camping, I still maintain the stretch from the OH/MI border to Detroit is the worst stretch of major highway/interstate I've ever been on.
It's called the astra bridge. Astra is the bundesamt für Strassen (Federal Office for roads). The US equivalent Departement would probably be the Federal highway Administration. The astra bridge is still pretty early in use and it still has some teething issues. Like the first Versions had a very low allowed speed. But the astra is working on it.
@@Aredel it's not quite the same as the military bridges. This bridge here never crosses a lake or something. It has wheels and is put on a piece of road that needs maintenance so traffic can drive over it while the road beneath is being worked on.
The endless spreading of never-ending suburbs is also a cause of this. You have a fuck ton of road length to get to very few houses. Maintaining that has bankrupted multiple cities in the US already.
Dippy Mississippi, ain't been there in a while, but I remember going down the finished highways, the ones they were proud of, bouncing like your brother-in-law's speedboat across the lake. It only LOOKED level lol
No other country has military planes routinely flying over local sports events. The flight per hour cost of a B52 Stratofortress is about $90 000. It's about the same for an F22. But you'll just have them fly randomly over a college football game.
I35 in Texas has been under construction since before I was born. I'm 46. I don't want to know anymore. The question, like voting, is pointless. I just want to tear everything down and rebuild it.
It's because we always talk about how much our infrastructure needs work, but certain people who claim to be all about the working class never want to pay for it.
We *claim* to be the best. Statistically, across the board, from education to life expectancy to healthcare to income security etc. we haven’t been close to the best in a long long time.
Where i lived up in Alaska, "they" were doing some serious road construction. Like there were culverts a moose could walk through (not an exaggeration) being put in. An entierly NEW SIDE ROAD was built. Paved & everything.
I spent a week in The Netherlands and the public transportation there made me cry because I knew I would never get this in the states. Meanwhile my Dutch friend complained about the bus being late like 2 minutes. She doesn't know how good she has it....
We have temp bridges like that here in the US. There are ones that are pieced together, and ones that come in tact and are slid over the gap in the road using a crane & bulldozer. Most ppl don't realize they're temporary... and its usually late at night when they're installed so very few ppl witness it. I was on a crew that put one over the St Charles River, and an over pass just down the road.... it was pretty cool to watch.
Every American should be wondering where they put our money. So many people don't know that most of the taxes we pay after busting our asses go to foreign countries or to a politicians pocket (on top of their unnecessary salary they shouldn't get).
Move to Maine. The potholes up here are a constant battle due to frost heave but damn if the road workers aren’t the most quick and efficient I’ve ever seen. Do a whole town or bridge in weeks rather than years. It’s amazing.
Being from LA, I can personally attest to the fact that our state and MS do indeed have the worst roads in the country! Traveled through 33 states in my lifetime so far, and have yet to find any highways that are worse maintained than ours. I swear, half the time I think I'm riding on the rumble strip, but then I realize the road just has that many stinkin' pot holes! 😮💨 And don't even get me started on how the DOTD takes their sweet time to complete projects that could've taken literally half the time than they drag on for! 🤦🏻♀️
Here in Pearl River county , MS’sippi, a road repair consists of spraying a layer of tar over existing road, potholes and all, then they put a layer of gravel. Tar gets all over your vehicle. In some cases they put a layer of dry concrete, spray it with water, then the tar and gravel. In this case you better power hose your vehicle down. They don’t mention that it’s dry concrete and it sticks to the underside of your vehicle and ruins your rims. Ruined my brakes and rims. Didn’t know why till mechanic brought out the layers of concrete.
"why AIN'T we got one of them?!?!?" 😅 Oh boy that hit when it came out so clearly I don't think I'm gonna be able to look at a road the same again. 😮 Fredo is the wizard of words, the slang slinger, the jargon juggernaut, the linguistic lieutenant, or dare I say the vernacular vendor of our time!!! You deserve so much support and respect for saying things that we all are thinking but don't say out loud for fear of big brother lashing out. Only the brave are willing to pull out a punch when you're already on the way down, others just take the hit and let it lay them out, but not you! Keep it up, my dude!! 😎
Depends on the state and city. US is massive compared to most countries. The cost of said device being used in every state would be expensive af. Would the cost of the device be cost effective if it's something that's used rarely in certain cities? Then the cost of upkeep to areas that hardly use it. Our stuff is a trickle down cascade of a mess.
I remember a video about this thing from years ago, while I think it was for a specific purpose it's pretty silly that there aren't at least a few of these, surely they could be beefed up if need-be. It should also be noted that the cost of living in Switzerland is pretty high as well, but surely some states(Cali, ny, texas) should have at least one set.
This is the astra bridge. The idea is to keep lanes open and still allow for road work to be done underneath. From what I know, it should eventually be in wider use. Currently I belive it's still in early runs, and still has some teething issues. I am sure you could get that thing to work too in th e USA. Maybe a bit bigger and beefier.
Want some bad roads? Come to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has potholes that can send a young jeep to a retirement home. Homeless people be sleeping in the potholes, because they offer more protection from the elements.
The Hulk A Town stomping. I can tell you this for free, someone would be paying for the lowered car I drive because that "bridge" would take off the exhaust, front bumper, oil pan, transmission cooler, radiator and the innercooler all at once.
Reminds me of a few years back when they shut down all of the on and off Tampa of the 465 loop around Indianapolis, and if you were on it, you had to leave Indianapolis just to take another road into town.
The highway by my house is been under construction no less than 15 times since 2020 they have added lanes, subtracted lanes, added pictures to the road, removed thats same pictures, just fixed to road for no reason when it was perfectly fine, added added rumble strips. Oh and it currently under construction for what idk but the construction truck is up there again. I just looked it up the cost for the two different sections of the highway being fixed is $51,740,000 and $47,300,000.
Mind you Switzerland is one of the most expensive places to live in. Sure they may use taxes and expenses on things that actually benefit their society but still. Had the best Popeyes I've ever eaten though, even if it was like $20 worth
Sooooo much of the infrastructure in California is from the the depression era public works projects… still better than a lot of new crap.. but seriously. Where is all our money going?!?
You see, the thing is that car infrastructure constantly needs repairs. It's not helped by the fact that most vehicles driven are bigger than they used to be in previous decades. On top of that, it is very expensive to fix roads and that played a role in the dept this country is taking on. Also none of this infrastructure pays for itself since it generates little to no tax revenue. And that money has got to come from somewhere...
Oh we had sections of the I-10 twin spans for two years New Orleans after Katrina) that were exactly like that, while they built the new bridge next to it. It sucked, because it was speed-limited and would need to be put back into place properly if too many went too fast on it. That was always good for a delay for a day.
My town filled a pothole with gravel, multiple times, before finally patching it properly. The city I work in has fucking cobblestone roads because it doesn’t want to spent the money to fix the roads on that side of town. The potholes and gouges at the intersections are deep enough to bottom out even some larger vehicles if you aren’t careful. I went to a national park/ recreation area near me once and the roads went unserviced for so many years, swathes had washed away on both paved and stabilized gravel sections. A local shortcut thru a small and shallow mountain pass (shorter end of the already short Appalachians) has essentially an extra wide one lane road with bridge choke points to serve traffic flow in both ways. It’s only like a 5 minute drive, but its risky, it’s scary, and you gotta slow down to pass each other on the way, especially before they clean the overflowing forest debris once a year. I could go on further. Lol
My favorite will always be the fact that all our freeways in my city got "fixed" and they were worse than before when it was "finished." Naturally, the city PAID the SAME PEOPLE WHO DID A BAD JOB to redo it. Cause, you know, that makes sense and could not possibly be due to kickbacks
In my area, they just set everything up like they're doing road work without ever doing any work so that they can increase traffic tickets in those areas. Thats why it stays a mess and never gets fixed.
Switzerland also has progressive speeding tickets that are a percentage of your wealth/income, so a speeding ticket would hurt everyone equally. It's the nicest place to drive (but a rude awakening if you're used to highways in SoCal)
In two places in my city they closed the roads for work for months… when they opened again one was made severely worse, like the road was previously fine, there was one pot hole but now the entire 4 lane road is janky af and the other road had several pits and dents and when they opened again, those weren’t the section of road they had even worked on …. …. … they really do just waste our money
Here in TN, they drive tracks over the fresh pavement so that it dries into a shitty rumble strip in the middle of an interstate. Doing 80 in the rain and hitting one of them is a death wish if you ain't got some damn good tires and even better insurance
Well... We use bulky machinery that wouldn't work around one of those temporary bridges. And replacing all that with smaller stuff would cost a lot to do
I don't know about anyone else but Seattle has or had a stretch of freeway that swung both ways. It was north bound part of the day and south bound the other part.
