Friday, October 29, 2010
As goes NoCa . . .
Priorities
Devolution of a Civilization.
Expressing dismay that they had no alternative, Sonoma County supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan to limit preservation of smooth paved surfaces to a select list of 150 miles of county roads.
...$4.5 million a year in pavement preservation work to 31 heavily traveled roads in unincorporated areas of the county [which is] ...11 percent of the county’s 1,384-mile network of roads, which Demery said is an asset worth $2.5 billion.
...More than 1,200 miles of county roads will be allowed to fail within 10 years, ... and some of those roads will be converted to gravel surfaces.
...County roads are in poor shape overall, with a pavement condition index of 43 on a scale of 100. It would cost $55 million a year — more than 10 times the county’s budget — to maintain that rating throughout the road system…
[Some dork “in charge” attempts to justify the situation by] noting that in Michigan roads are “reverting to gravel every day.”
Meanwhile, one valley to the east…
...the Napa trail is a mini-freeway for two-wheeled, people-powered vehiclesthe 1.8-mile bike path cost $5.4 million, virtually all of it from state grants ... the final two-thirds of a mile for $1 million
We [the taxpayers of CA] are creating $3M/mile people-powered “roads” and letting $2.5B of infrastructure necessary to commerce and trade revert to 1929 status of gravel and dirt. This will increase state revenues, HOW??!?!?!?!
In. Com. Pet. Tense.
Did they mention that Napa is Nanny Pelosi’s “home town?”
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