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Monday, March 26, 2007

Roads crumbling

I had to do some driving this weekend -- more than I cared to think about -- and I noticed a lot of roads that needed to be repaved. The quick explanation is to say that it's spring, meaning it's pothole season. If it is pothole season, I hope they increase the bag limit this year, because I found several I want to harvest.

I encountered holes on state roads in West Virginia and Ohio, and I found them on smaller country roads.

This rite of spring makes me wonder about the future of road maintenance. Does anyone else get the feeling that the amount of bad roadway is about to overwhelm our resources to fix it? I'm not talking about the city of Huntington. I'm talking about roads that are maintained by the state.