For a minute there I thought I had to get off my couch, when all the while the fact is we don't have to do anything much but keep things afloat for just a few decades more! In fact, we'd best shut up about PO, because if our offspring finds out we knew about it all along, they'll turn and wring our necks come 2036!
"they are simply wearing out faster than we can repair them."
Can you say "overshoot"???"
Total non sequitur.
The first statement isnt even true. Are they telling me that the rate of repair of roads cant be improved simply by, oh i dont know, spending more money.
As for overshoot. We are not even close. Universal wealth will curb the population way before we reach any nature imposed restrictions.
I also don't understand what your last sentence is implying, could you clarify?
As for repairing the roads, I think somebody else hit on the answer, you can only repair so much at a time without causing absolute outrage from the people, because when the repairs are happening, the road is blocked off. Only so many roads can be blocked off and repaired at one time, and the systems are already strained way beyond intended capacity. Therefore many of the roads are wearing out before they can get to repairing them because they are already involved in repairing some other section.
Joined: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 296 Location: Rual ID, USA, World
Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:
shortonoil wrote:
I wouldn't be too concerned with the condition of the roads.
It's the BRIDGES that you should be worried about!
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Why should we worry about bridges. If they collapse while you are on it, or under it, you die.
If you hit a large pothole then you have car repairs, have to deal with your boss for being late
for work, have to deal with the insurance company, plus you are likely to be blocking traffic . . . .
There are a lot more headaches associated with bad roads.
ArimoDave _________________ I know exactly where we are;
. . . .
don't know where we're going, but no use in being late.
(Mathew Quigley [Tom Selleck])
If anyone is in Detroit proper, look up and tell me what you see when you drive under the overpasses. Several years ago, it was common for me to see a bunch of pieces of plywood spanning between the steel supports. Presumably, this is or was to keep the crumbling pavement from falling on the cars below, as I remember news reports of people getting concrete chunks through the windshield, blowing out tires from the debris, etc.. from this type of thing. A friend of mine had his car damaged when a piece of concrete fell from an overpass.
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3431 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:
ubercrap wrote:
If anyone is in Detroit proper, look up and tell me what you see when you drive under the overpasses. Several years ago, it was common for me to see a bunch of pieces of plywood spanning between the steel supports. Presumably, this is or was to keep the crumbling pavement from falling on the cars below, as I remember news reports of people getting concrete chunks through the windshield, blowing out tires from the debris, etc.. from this type of thing. A friend of mine had his car damaged when a piece of concrete fell from an overpass.
They have been spending tons of my tax dollars to fix all that in anticipation of the 2006 Superbowl, the infrastructure has been vastly improved the last couple years _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
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