As many of you know, I bike around the city a lot. For the most part, I ride around the fluorescent bollards and past the pothole police making $68 an hour and don't actually look at what the road work is actually about. It is probably the same with people driving cars in Toronto who are so pissed off with the jammed up traffic due to road works sites that they never really glance at what is going on at the site as they drive by.
Lately, I have been looking more closely at some of these sites and it seems to me that much if it is bogus - where holes are dug and filled in again, replacing previous holes which had been poorly filled in. Great big square swatches of road are being excavated to a depth of 6" or so, especially near street corners, to replace earlier smaller road cuts.
Or huge square areas of road surface (5 square metres or more) are being removed to replace less than 10 square cm of crumbled pavement near a manhole cover or curb, whereas huge potholes continue to get bigger in other areas.
Look more closely at what is being done, and you will see what I am talking about.
Who decides what to repair and how big it should be? The paving companies hired by the City? Someone else?
Something fishy has been going on with road works this year I suspect...
Lately, I have been looking more closely at some of these sites and it seems to me that much if it is bogus - where holes are dug and filled in again, replacing previous holes which had been poorly filled in. Great big square swatches of road are being excavated to a depth of 6" or so, especially near street corners, to replace earlier smaller road cuts.
Or huge square areas of road surface (5 square metres or more) are being removed to replace less than 10 square cm of crumbled pavement near a manhole cover or curb, whereas huge potholes continue to get bigger in other areas.
Look more closely at what is being done, and you will see what I am talking about.
Who decides what to repair and how big it should be? The paving companies hired by the City? Someone else?
Something fishy has been going on with road works this year I suspect...