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

hr.

An unsurprising response:

q.
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.
q..

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":http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2003/05/14/City-to-fix-28-miles-of-bumps-this-year.html

q.
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.
q..

 #toledo #politics #moronism #humor