Greensboro can bear a few bumps in road
The Greensboro City Council is considering eliminating the budget for road paving for FY 2008-09 as noted in an article by Taft Wireback (June 1). I favor some reduction in this budget.
For the 19 years I’ve lived here, I have repeatedly marveled at repaving of roads that seemed to have no problems. This includes my own road in the last couple years, which showed no need for repaving to my eye.
I lived a few years in the Chicago area, and visit my brother in New York State. In both areas, roads in much worse condition serve without being repaved. While their cold weather certainly stresses roads more, the communities seem to do fine with more cracks and bumps.
Keep the budget to fill potholes and cracks. Keep repaving some roads. But I’m quite supportive of waiting a couple more years between repaving — at least for the roads I have experienced.
Jean Pudlo
Greensboro
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How many mufflers/exhaust systems have fallen off of cars because of the dip in the road at Cornwallis/Elam? It's been that way for at least 25 years.
Contrast that to the random patches of new pavement laid down on perfectly good roads on lightly used residential streets all over the city.
It's a public works program, pave it whether it needs it or not.
Posted on June 5, 2008 7:24 AM
everyone should read Twilla's article
http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/06/state_needs_big_changes.shtml
Posted on June 5, 2008 10:09 PM
oops! here's the correct link..sorry
http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/05/reduce_county_spending_instead.shtml
Posted on June 9, 2008 3:58 PM