We live near a fairly busy intersection, about a block away. Recently, the local Highway Department has taken to calling residents (an automated message) who live in close proximity to pending roadwork, and warn them of expected delays. I got that call about three weeks ago. Two weeks ago they came and dug up and scraped the east-west portion of the intersection.
And then they left. We received no phone call alerting us to the carnage they left behind; a three inch "bump" when traveling the north-south portion of the intersection. Because of the work they haven't finished, the roads don't match, and the pavement and the manhole covers and water line covers are jutting out. But it's the unaligned roads that are causing the problem. The light turns green, and the cars slowly inch their way forward over these small raised portions of the pavement. Traffic is badly backed up because of it, and we've received no follow up call as to when the work may be completed.
I doubt damage would really be done to a car if the raised pavements were traveled over at a reduced speed, as opposed to literally being rolled over at one mile an hour from a DEAD STOP!!! I even went to the local tire place to find out. 40 miles an hour would be a problem, but you don't need to stop. The most irritating thing about it, is that more than half the vehicles doing this are SUVs.
OK, you got yourself a big truck, you don't off-road, and the streets get plowed fairly quickly when it snows. WHY CAN"T YOU ACCELERATE OVER A THREE INCH BUMP?!?!? Why exactly did you buy this vehicle? It's an SUV, if you're going to pay that much for gas, and destroy the environment (wink), the LEAST you can do is have enough confidence in your truck to actually DRIVE! over the bump.
Sheesh.
2 comments:
you would think they would want to see what their "babies" can do? ;)
what they also left behind lots of nails and screws one of which deflated my brand new tire. thank you fbb for being the good samaritan you usually are related
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