Tell them to go out to Boundary road. The pavement is lifting on the brand new section there too.

Good news that the city is getting the work done for free or bad news that indicate that Columbia Bitulithic still does not have an effective quality control system in place at their batch plant and an inferior product is being laid at every job. There was major patch work on University Blvd shortly after being laid and again last summer.

As the warranty is only a year the city should be demanding that Columbia provides documentation that all product laid down at least meets the minimum standard laid out in the contract.

Step 1: Find Pothole

Step 2: Fill Pothole with Tax payers money

Step 3: Repeat yearly

It would be nice if the contracotrs could clean up the sand/stones after work is comlete. O’Grady and domano is a mess. Highway 16 west also. Dangerous for motorcycles. Adds to an already unkept and dirty city.

The warranty is good for a year or so. How will this work last for 20 years though?

city…..where was your quality control during placement????????????

Definition of a pothole? It’s a hole in the road that the City continues to try and fill with “Tax payers” dollars!

Some heads need to roll at City Hall

Rumor has it that the environmentalist forced a change to the batch recipe to be more environmentally friendly. Which in turn produces an inferior product. Lucky we even get a 1 year warranty.

rumour has it? oh, those evil environmentalists! who did you hear it from, your best friend’s wife’s second cousin that knows somebody that works at city hall?

Taxi: Here’s hoping the heads roll out of the election box on voting day, but, you never know if yer gonna get another Rogers in your neighborhood.

Thumbs up to lonesome sparrow and retyred. You each have pointed to inspections/tests normally done which should pick such problems as segregation and the job should be done before final acceptance of the work.

THAT is when the warranty starts, not before.

If this was done now instead of last year because the weather turned to cold or some other reason beyond the control of the City, then the warranty start now.

Problem is, we have no competition here. So, another way has to be found to get us a quality job. I think a viable alternative has been suggested – do major paving very second year to get enough volume to make it worthwhile for companies from further away to bid on local projects.

Or deal with MoT, or a combination of the two.

The only way to solve the pot hole situation is to rip up the pavement & redo the top 2 or 3 feet of the base. When the roads were originally built however many years ago , some contractors either used original top soil or buried organic matter that has shifted or broken down. Only problem with the correct way of repair is that roads will be shut down for a month or more at a time. If you think the public hates the inconvenience or pairing, imagine what would happen if they did that.