4 years later and to this date he is still on city payroll like Milton from Office Space. Just working down under the paver every day it's not much but it's an honest life.
Note for viewers after me. The hours meter is total machine (engine operation) hours. There is no way to say that the city actually USED the machine. You can add up hours on that counter by just idling the machine in place, and even brand new it had to have a couple of hours on it from post-assembly testing, much like a brand new off-the-train car has a a very few (usually less than 5) miles on it already. - A good follow-up would be to see if whomever bought the "obsolete" model is getting more use out of it. Hint: I bet they are.
@@houstonjoker3836 Hey, be nice now, this is America, all it takes it one medical bill and you're gonna be wishing you had a paving machine to sleep under.
All paving companies I know of use those machines so often they staff mechanics to maintain them. While local roads are falling apart, this LA City machine sits practically brand new.
It’s a simple matter of limited resources. City codes require them to hire transgender maintenance operators, and all of them are busy teaching children about Drag Queens at the local libraries
That's fine we rich. I only have a helicopter and a jet but my neighbor parks a heli, a jet, and about 20 super cars on his roof. I don't even want to talk about my other neighbors who park UFOs on top.
And Democratic states like Oregon waste 750k a year on bottled water because the water fountains have an issue, and spends 500k a year on disposal of those water bottles.
KC I know, let's take the power Away from law abiding citizens who's lives get damaged and their ability to fight back and empower criminals who profit off robbing the lives of the innocent! -Democrats
I watch more news from California than Chicago which is where I live. I think everyone knows there's a lot going on in chicago yet I still see California news more lol.
The company that built it tested it and showed it to the city officials before they bought it Why would the city need to test it? They didn't engineer it.
Francisco Islas when you take money from the city and can’t pay it back you take your time to fix anything so it can have time to replenish the missing money
I think this machine is designed to grind and recycle asphalt. Most city streets have many patches made of concrete. The machine is probably not designed to grind or convert concrete to asphalt. This machine will never pay for itself. It's probably broke down because of inexperienced operators. A contractor friendly with the Mayor will purchase it for a $100,000 in a sealed bid auction.
Even if it was a road made from asphalt they still need a paving crew to work around the manholes and sewer grates. Not sure how many paving companies are willing to bid on jobs where the city wants to do all the straight easy work in house then contract out the skilled finishing work.
Jaime Alonzo you typically have to have it registered to an address, whether a parent’s house or a half way house. 99% of the people you see wearing them are “low level” sex offenders, so as soon as you see that enlarged sock on one leg grab your kids and walk the other way.
I’m surprised they didn’t try to interview the LAPD. Someone knows exactly where that guy is at all times of the day! Who is responsible if this guy happens to drag a young girl down there..? The judge? The owner of the lot? Or do they get to throw their hands up again?
Just to clarify what this machine is. It’s a milling machine. Its purpose is for grinding up old asphalt or concrete so new asphalt or concrete can be put down. It does not recycle or lay down new asphalt or any other material. It only removes material. But regardless of that it still shouldn’t be sitting there wasting away
This is not just a milling machine. Although that is one of the functions it does as well as mixing new oil in, and placing the material on the road or in a laydown machine. True the media should not call it a "paver", the media likes to make up things...
I love how they focused on the homeless man throughout the segment. If the point is to expose corrupt justice and misuse of taxpayer dollars; What is gained or added from citing the homeless man? I mean really? In reality, exposing situations like this only leaves a bad taste in the populations mouth. Because if you really think exposing the misuse will actually CHANGE the behavior, your silly.
6/16/17....just before end of tax financial year. In other words, the city went on a spending spree, to ensure they're entitled to 10% more revenue for the next financial year, because they've spent it all, common business practice.
It’s hard to use a machine when the streets are full of homeless in the first place. Second a million bucks is only worth 3 modest family homes in that area now. So it sounds like a bunch of pointless whining now.
Maybe it doesnt work. Europe has paver machines that lay brick pavers functionally. If they cant get an asphalt repaver they should revert to pavers. Even cobblestone style would beat all the potholes on some rds.
In my country it's usually a corrupt deal between supplier and government officials. A need would be "invented" for unnecessary purchase and kickback payed to officials out of over inflated prices. The facilitating agent can score up to 33% commission, always a family member or friend of official.
Eman Yerr seriously it's fucking criminal. And they always have the disenfranchised drone like people giving out parking tickets because they don't give a shit long as they get paid and the damn govt knows it!
wizard sorcerer you're like either 14 yrs old or not from LA. IF you don't have a car in LA you are at a handicap. So nice try, but it's not that simple.
I know that machine and what it does. Cause several years ago Donald trump hosted a show on discovery channel featuring it. Can resurface with fewer people and no new materials allowing you to save money while paying employees more. You can drive on road 15 minutes after it passes without having to close road. That thing should be running around the clock.
Most likely workers don’t want to use it because it works too well. It’s been a known fact CalTrans takes their time because it keeps their budget high.
I remember hearing the joke “What’s wrong with the roads!” And then realizing in my own city that they tend to break up and replace the same streets while others have gone decades and have potholes every couple of FEET! Never ever see them get taken care of.
I won't give my last name ,but give the street name that I live in that's fine, I mean if anybody from State wanted to find her for her comments I'm pretty sure it would be easyyyyyyyyy to find a Martha within that block and specially with her face being exposed !!!! 🤦🤔
wobblegook are you stupid by choice? Hes pointing out the fact that shes trying to stay anonymous while showing where she lives which is fucking stupid
Omg the look on the mayors face, he looked shocked it had been used that much. It should pay for itself in three to four years at this rate? How about working it night and day to fix the darn roads and have it pay for it’s self in a week? What a thought!
Poor homeless dude.. Bet he didn't know the entire city was watching him, being mentioned to the mayor and then asked about his name once more at the end. Let the dude sleep. At least it's doing SOMETHING, albeit a glorified tent, but a still...
I don't know that might be Michigan's slogan. We have the worse roads in America (or so I believe) potholes, cracks, whole chunks missing, patches that were done weeks ago already falling apart etc etc. But I dunno you might be right
Democrats sit in there rich bubble but try to control everyone not in the bubble. They literally dont live with poor people or minorities and gate them out of their communities but somehow know whats best for them, They want you on welfare.
Moron, people on welfare have no fucking wages to raise, so how the fuck are they trying to get them off welfare, you can't work and receive welfare in CA so your stuck.Just look at any major democrat controlled city/state. Do you even pay attention to democrats policies, they are about government controlling everyone. Republicans just want you to be a man and take care of your self. People aren't supposed to make a living working at Mcdonalds, those jobs are for kids to get work experience. Its not sustainable, If I force Mcdonalds to raise there wages the will go out of business because the sell a fucking burger for a 1$, same with small business that can barely pay there employees.
your a fucking moron, TRUMP just speaks facts. Meanwhile dumbass Democrats want to spend millions of dollars on making sure illegal immigrants are okay in CA when there's plenty of poor people in fact the highest population of homeless people living California, I grew up poor and had to claw my way out and I see the difference from both sides, unlike most Democrats that grew up fucking rich and coddled by their fucking parents
+Smokeout System; that 3 million is entirely the votes from manhattan. Exclude those city slickers and trump would win popular vote. And dont think that city slickers can resist mass hypnosis as well as rural population. Ergo rural states get more votes per person than urban.
Lol now the city knows how it feels for a squatter to live in a dwelling that isn’t his. I hope the city needs to properly “evict” him like us landlords have to just through hoops that the city makes us do.
it seriously would have been a good way to talk about the homeless situation that's getting quite severe in LA. IF they even put a quarter of that kind of money into a project I'm sure it would make a difference....
The mayor said it's in testing mode and then he said they paid over $11,000 mi of work but have no explanation of why it's just sitting there and why it's only been ran 5 hours for the whole year so far time to vote him out of office
This is such a waste of money. The new machine is awesome but if they don't know how to use it it's worthless. I'm sure soon it will go up for auction and then the guy that gets it will enjoy a next to new paver. If they are going to do this they should invest that money into the public schools or the community. Not something they WON'T use.
Anyone who gets paid “tax payer money” should be required to wear a camera at all times while on the clock- there should be live feeds that anyone can get access to.
As a heavy equipment operator that works with these machines and is also a libertarian, this is actually a great use of taxpayer money. Trust me, I really don't like taxes and I don't like the government wasting money, however, this machine legitimately will pay for its self in 4-5 years with a working life of about 20-25 years. Owning the machine allows the city to complete projects at cost and with more flexible scheduling.
They saved 10-20k this year. Yay-! That’s about 1% of $1.3M, no? 50-130 years and it pays for itself! Oh wow! They aren’t lying 🥴 yeah, 13,000 jobs and it’s paid for. (If Americans could do math, the civil war would have stated decades ago.)
But people breed out the smart- only the dumb and rich are breeding- if you’re rich, there’s no need to be smart or even try- That machine -if it’s not already- will be a mystery to anyone who comes near it xD I give it another 40 years.
He MUST be related to someone working for the city/cops. They know exactly where he is with that monitor on his ankle, I wonder if he’s a seggs offender… imagine if he strikes again and takes his victim to that spot-!? Who is held accountable then-!? Just him! He’s being protected- why not spend 1.3M on a homeless shelter instead-? Ah, gotta pay staff. Can’t just let them live there alone-!? Then… someone can be held accountable. Can’t have that-! Better to act like they completely oblivious to what goes down in their city.
Contact the manufacturer and ask about maintenance for it. They can not sit for months, it needs to run. Better yet look at who sold it and how they possibly connected with someone in the government.
They used if for 51 hours, that's enough time to see that maybe it doesn't work as good as advertised? Are the palms being greased to not use in it favor of paying for new asphalt somewhere else.
replaces a bunch of dude to like 3 guys thats why they dont use it they want to pay for more dudes slower times because theya re partners of the syndicates
It’ll pay for itself at this pace in 3 to 5 years. So the 51 hours being used the first year is great achievement. Shit my town contracts everything except for potholes.
It must be a kick in the nuts for the tax payer to see this sit unused. One thing though, they can't resurface a road that is lined with cars. Also, the reason they probably lined the fence with tarp is so that criminals can't see valuable items sat idol, easy to steal.
dduewe maybe the local council could throw tarmac at the sermon while they are on their rampage.... it's the only way the roads will get resurfaced any time soon 😉
A survey has to be done of which roads need it and which roads are good for it. Traffic plans have to be determined, as to when to pave to not interfere much with current traffic demands meaning traffic in those areas has to be studied, new slope designs have to be determined for the road to run off water effectively, Roads have to be tested to see if the recycling method works on certain roads prior to paving, and training a crew takes times too. Im not surprised its been a year. As a material testing technician the plans I receive are around 1-2 years old for projects going on today.
Be very careful what you ask for, if you live in snohomish county Washington most of the damage on our roads are from where the county did so called repairs, its the work quality of 3rd graders.
What is obsolete is something that actually does the job and does it right what they want to do is have taxpayers fund new asphalt from different companies that the city doesn't own or even that the city does own but they don't want to use that repaver it's way too efficient
Well, that homeless guy "was" living there until this video came out. How long does anyone think it took for the cops to show up and kicked his ass out after seeing this? Good job there News 2
To only use a machine of this type for 4 hours over a 2 year period is a criminally negligent under utilisation of a taxoayer funded asset. But to then replace it after that time and use with another, costing almost 1.4 Million Dollars utterly beggars belief! Whomever is (ir)responsible for these outrages needs to be dismissed on the grounds of Gross Misconduct!
