Surviving our streets

They are going to take your money & cosmetically resurface many of your streets. This will inturn break up & fall apart every 2 years. You can spend a bunch of $ rewarding the existing contractors for doing a commendable job, or you can study basic road repairs & form an educated hypothesis. The roads are just being skim coated with asphalt. They are not using reclaimers for proper adhesion. I don't know why Tulsans can't grasp this. RECLAIMERS! how do you think New England's roads hold up under harsh winters. They have extremely heavy snow removal equipment. They use reclaimers. They don't just pour asphalt over the existing broken roads. How many times do I have to post this before someone aknowledges that we aren't getting propper repairs. They are accepting money for proper repairs & taking dramatic short cuts. We should be suing for abuse of funds. We are suffering from "naive" wealthy leadership trying to fix problems (that they have no clue about)by spending a bunch of our money. You will be wasting money & materials if you continue to fix them the same way. Money isn't going to make the problems go away. Proper proceedures will. p.s. someone has to get a handle on the abuse of man hours. It is common to see Tulsa's road crews arranging & re- arranging cones for almost a year before they do their "skim coat" rush jobs! This is litterally "highway robbery" we are paying them hourly wages to disappear for months. We were milked out of a 3 penny tax & recently "gouged" out of millions $ more. They have stopped numerous projects due to corruption however, aren't changing the way they do road business yet! Yes! we are being scammed!! All of the elitists are pushing through their "pet projects", while avoiding our infrastructures. Tulsa's "PITY THE NEXT GUY MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS" it sure too kthem a while to figure this out. I've been complaining for a decade! They just scored a half a billion more dollars to fix them again!!!!!!! & they still arent

some dreamers some losers , we pay more for roads than most states take 412 sucks all thrue oklahoma , but hit the hillbilly state arkansas and its like glass ,hit new mexico magic carpet this state is poor, but simple inner city , corperation comission should take all the tax and some profit from fuel use that i pay dot ,gas tax city sales tax, property tax toll roads oh and state tax where is our money and why when we do fix it why do we hire texas to do it they cant fix anything everything that comes from there has been a disaster and it would only cost a little more to do it right, also the hottest place to do road work we do in the day during traffic denver dose it at night so just get use to it the joke its on us

I find it amazing that states like Michigan, who are nearly bankrupt & have snow on the ground nearly 6 mos of the year can have such nice roads when we cant. Inferior materials like cheap sand aggregate are being used. This is not the answer. If the city took initiative to not use the very cheapest of contractors, it would make a difference, cheap contractors do cheap jobs.

Potholes are a result, in most cases, due to failing base material. Cities and towns across the US experience the same roads problems we have here in Tulsa. The difference here in Tulsa is we seem to always put a Band-Aid on a gapping wound. Poor planning & Road design. They have ruined "Route 66" east of Yale. Look at Lewis south of 11th. Harvard around 71st.is next. Next check out the public works budget over the last 25 some years. Twenty five tears ago we must have said, "A" & "B" students need not apply. By the way, This happens to be one very livable city. The service moved us around.