The roads!!!

[FishermanTim]

I don't know why, but isn't it amazing that Massachusetts can't seem to be able to plow its roads without tearing them up EVERY year?
Travel to the other New England states that get MORE snow than us, and their highways are pristine and I don't think they know what a pothole is!
Here in (M)assachusetts, there isn't a time when the roads are is such disrepair, it makes me wonder who is more at fault: the plow drivers that love to plow all day, all the time, even when there is no snow, or the state workers that don't seem to know how to pave a road so that overzealous plow drivers can't tear them up at the hint of a snowflake?

We plow highways until they unearth the lost city of Atlantis, and plow secondary and terciary roads when the snow melts.
The roads are repaired, repaved, dug up because someone scheduled their project for the exact day that the paving was completed, and then do a piss-poor patch job and pat themselve on the back for a stellar job.
The state must be saving a bundle by buying second and third rate materials for their roadwork, because with roads that crumbles within 3 months of being paved, and bridge repairs (aka:bandaid on a bullet wound) that only perpetuate the repair merry-go-round, they seem to have more and more money to throw at these ill-fated projects.

Gee, I wonder why they never seem to have enough money to complete the most important infrastructure projects?
When you pad the payroll and purposely do a very sub-par job, you basically are creating job security. You will have to repair your shoddy workmanship (if you can call it that) repeatedly, and that takes your time and our money.

OK, rant is over.
(I may have to find a way to claim all auto repairs on my taxes next year, since I paid my taxes that are supposed to go toward road upkeep, and they have obviously failed to do that!)