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heh wrote:

The state certainly could shift a lot of wasted VDOT money over to education. This state repaves roads and highways like there's no tomorrow. Usually the road surface has years of use left on it, and some spot maintenance would have sufficed.

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Im Ya Huckleberry wrote:

<quoted text> Now you're a road maintenance engineer? When will the state be incorporating crumb rubber from used tires into the asphalt mix?

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heh wrote:

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it's not rocket science to determine your driving on smooth pavement cartoon guy

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GoUVa wrote:

Sorry boys, got to go along with the Governor on cutting the funds to education. How about a long term solution to the education problems we have now instead of throwing money at them. Get back to the fundamental basics on which education was built on. Students go to school to learn and teachers go to teach. Take the babysitting out of the equation. Time to hold parents responsible and stop the waste in our school systems.

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C-Ville Patriot wrote:

<quoted text>Is this the GoUVa that I have come to know as someone that I have a hard time agreeing with? Oh well I am in agreement with you now.

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Im Ya Huckleberry wrote:

<quoted text> Even a blind hog finds an acorn ever now and then!

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Im Ya Huckleberry wrote:

<quoted text> So I would guess you are not a road maintenance engineer. Have you ever heard of porosity?(noun-full of pores,through which fluids,air,or light may pass) What do you think happens when the pores in the asphalt become big enough to allow a sufficient amount of water to penetrate and freeze? The pavement still seems smooth when you drive over it until the freezing water displaces the asphalt. Guess you ain't no rocket scientist.

Im Ya Huckleberry wrote:

<quoted text> So I would guess you are not a road maintenance engineer. Have you ever heard of porosity?(noun-full of pores,through which fluids,air,or light may pass) What do you think happens when the pores in the asphalt become big enough to allow a sufficient amount of water to penetrate and freeze? The pavement still seems smooth when you drive over it until the freezing water displaces the asphalt. Guess you ain't no rocket scientist.

Im Ya Huckleberry wrote:

<quoted text> So I would guess you are not a road maintenance engineer. Have you ever heard of porosity?(noun-full of pores,through which fluids,air,or light may pass) What do you think happens when the pores in the asphalt become big enough to allow a sufficient amount of water to penetrate and freeze? The pavement still seems smooth when you drive over it until the freezing water displaces the asphalt. Guess you ain't no rocket scientist.

C-Ville Patriot wrote:

<quoted text>I know "heh" will never find his acorn.

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C-Ville Patriot wrote:

<quoted text>Is this the GoUVa that I have come to know as someone that I have a hard time agreeing with? Oh well I am in agreement with you now.

heh wrote:

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thanks for the detailed science lesson
this begins as soon as it is repaved, and is inevitable
they can at least wait until it starts to break up and not waste taxpayer money being anal about it

GoUVa wrote:

Sorry boys, got to go along with the Governor on cutting the funds to education. How about a long term solution to the education problems we have now instead of throwing money at them. Get back to the fundamental basics on which education was built on. Students go to school to learn and teachers go to teach. Take the babysitting out of the equation. Time to hold parents responsible and stop the waste in our school systems.

Im Ya Huckleberry wrote:

<quoted text> You really are clueless aren't you? So we go ahead and let it break up, now a crew has to come in and fill the potholes, wasting time and energy that could have been avoided. Now the pavement sub-surface is compromised where the pot holes were. Additionally, since the patches are never the same height as the surrounding pavement this creates further damage when car tires impact this raised (or recessed area)area. Even if the road is eventually re-paved these elevated or recessed areas will continue to deteoriate because of the stresses of traffic. Maybe you should defer to the highway maintenance engineers when they approve a road for re-paving.

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Rte 250 bypass was paved a while back and there were no potholes. My street in albemarle was paved a year ago and the surface was in great shape. In fact the 'resurfacing' left it in a rough, sorry shape, worse than it was before they came in.
Pot hole patches are not a long-term fix, but a few here and there, IF they are even present is a lot cheaper to maintain than paving the entire road for miles and miles.
I've lived all over the country including years in new england, and nowhere have I seen such a waste of highways funds.

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heh wrote:

This state repaves roads and highways like there's no tomorrow.