There are two seasons here in the Great Lakes Region, Winter and Road Construction.
You almost can't look in any of the cardinal directions and not see an orange construction barrel or traffic safety cone. One day they line up on one street and proliferate on the adjacent street on the next. They are reproducing like rabbits; I swear it.
Main streets, side streets, cul-de-sac, highways, interstate; there just isn't any relief from it at all. Downtown, uptown, suburbs, rural communities - the short orange goblins are simply everywhere. About the only people that enjoying this are the manufacturers of the brightly-colored diminutive little creatures.
Perhaps if we used better materials and construction methods in the building of our roadways and thoroughfares they would last longer and require less maintenance. But cities always use the lowest bidder using the poorest materials and the cheapest labor; job security for city workers, I suppose. And besides, it isn't their money they are using anyway - why should they care? Just keep dumping more and more of the taxpayer's money into the streets every year.
But I'll bet if it WAS their money, the roads would be in much better shape.
Something to chew on there I would say!
