Getting Tulsa's potholes fixed

One, they have to clean out the potholes, fill them with hot asphalt, roll it down, and then cover with steel plates that are secured with bolts for 90 days. After the asphalt is cured, remove the steel plates and the road is like new. Two, they have to use a machine that removes the top two inches of asphalt from the road way, then lay hot asphalt over the whole street, roll it down, and open it up after it cures in about 24 hours. Sounds like you people of Tulsa need to fire your city manager and bring in someone who will repair your roads! You don't even want to get me going on potholes. They don't even get off their @'''sssses, they sit on the back of a tailgate - n - drive by with shovels. Look around you. Some of them miss the holes. They don't even tamp them. It's a union arrogance . They refuse to be seen doing any work or something. One would imagine they'd want to accomplish something to kill the time..nah! not these guys....they think they'r outsmartin' everybody by doing as lil' as possible. How are we doing on those corruption cases? I'll bet they never even mention the quality of the work, yet alone getting the money back!

We are going to continue to have road problems in Tulsa. As long as you have the same contractors doing the same "skip a few steps" sub quality repairs. They want us to pay them more money(via property taxes)to fix roads, that they have been paid to repair (poorly) for years. Our roads are all being repaired by merely spreading thin layers (1" -1 1/2") of asphalt over the existing broken roads. Other cities with "real" winter weather use reclaimers. Reclaimers scrape the surface of the road in need of repair, leaving a great bonding surface. They are skipping this step & asking for more $$$$$$. This is why our freshly paved roads break up w/in two years. They simply break up & lift off the old damaged roads, in most cases leaving big potholes. We should be suing for gross neglagence. The road contractors,bribed inspectors & the field engineers for allowing our community to fall into such dangerous commutes.

The 169 North to 51 West interchange is almost good! Just a two foot seam along the eastern edge of 169 as your leaving is all that is crumbling now. That should be an easy weekend fix. The guys that just roofed my house could probably do it in four hours.