My jun 21 2015 tt comment about toledo's roads

in this thread
http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/192392/14Jun2015/Toledo_Roads

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An unsurprising response:

City officials have blamed the crumbling streets on a series of problems, beginning with the 2008 Great Recession that led to cuts in the city’s income tax revenues and in local government revenues from the state.

Toledo's population in 1990 : 332,943.

Now, Toledo's population is around 280,000.

Over 50,000 fewer people in 25 years. I assume that some of those people who fled Toledo paid taxes to the city when they lived here.

2003 Blade story

Even [resurfacing] 40 miles a year would leave the city playing catch-up with pavement maintenance, however.

With about 1,100 center-line miles of street, the city would need to repave 55 miles a year to keep up with the 20-year life cycle that engineers generally accept for residential-street pavements - and that doesn't consider the 10-year lifespan for blacktop on major streets or the additional lane mileage that the wider streets entail.

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