BEHOLD … AN HONEST-TO-GOD ROAD MAINTENANCE PROJECT!
Despite an elegant sufficiency of taxpayer funds, South Carolina’s network of roads and bridges has gone to hell over the last few years/ decades … the result of greedy politicians wasting money/ chasing federal matching funds for non-essential projects while they have habitually ignored long-overdue maintenance and repairs.
But we’ve addressed all that (in all sorts of detail) previously …
Believe it or not, though, there’s one road that’s actually getting a fresh coat of asphalt this week … an honest-to-God maintenance project!
No, we’re not talking about Interstate 85 in the Palmetto Upstate … we’re referring to the entrance to the S.C. State House parking garage, which lawmakers, lobbyists and other insiders will use on November 5 when a budget panel of the S.C. House of Representatives convenes to figure out ways to pump still more money into the same old broken system.
Seriously … at a time when lawmakers are bitching and moaning about not having enough money to fix crumbling roads and bridges, there’s apparently plenty of money available to do some resurfacing on the roads around the S.C. State House.
Take a look …
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Yeah …
Talk about political prioritization: Woefully maintained roads and bridges were literally washed away earlier this month during the “Floodmaggedon” disaster, but God forbid state lawmakers come back to their capitol parking garage without a freshly surfaced road to travel on!
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That’s an entire street – Pendelton – not just a driveway into the Senate Parking garage. The street was in bad shape. Nevertheless, the optics on this are not particularly good.
A state road crew was on my street repairing pot holes last week.
I had to keep running outside to wake them up in their truck so they could take a break.
Just kidding, any time I see a road crew out and about they really put in an effort. Probably the hardest workers in the Highway Department.
Only the section of Pendleton St. between Main and Assembly is a state DOT maintained road (S-40-174). The rest of it in both directions is a City of Columbia Street and maintained by the City of Columbia Street Division. Which portion is being repaired? Is the City sucking up to the legislature? Inquiring minds want to know.
The pics above both appear to be of the portion of Pendleton St. between Sumter St. and Main St.
It is all about them!
The taxpayer is a necessary evil, with whom they must contend only, to have access to more and more money for their whims.
There’s a road in the distance….
Where the eagle flies…
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Here is another project that involves a few favorites: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article41311785.html
I’ve been calling and calling the Mayor to do something about these terrible potholes! After months of badgering, they finally took action!
And now are the potholes filled?
No, now the Mayor has an unlisted phone number.
NEWS: 400lb man heaviest ever to run LA marathon.
(Followed by pothole repair crew. )
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NASA scientists thought they had discovered a large crater in Columbia that appeared to be miles from any intelligent lifeforms, they thought a large comet had hit the earth unnoticed. Turns out its just a pothole on Broad River Road..
Im sure the free market will take care of it..just leave it…
They did a great job on I-26. Now we just need another tanker explosion approximately every 300 feet and we can finally get it paved. For now pay no attention to all that flying gravel. Insurance will buy you another windshield.
Like many other states that have problems funding road repair, “LEts tax the gas!!!!” The more you use the roads the more you pay!!!! dont tax me at the store…already too high