Sunday, August 29, 2010

North State Street is falling down, falling down....









Car was driving down North State Street this afternoon. Pavement collapsed. There was no rain. Car would not budge.

15 comments:

Paul Mitchell said...

Incredible. Maybe Harvey will pave that when it is reelection time?

Anonymous said...

Once we return Capitol Street to two-way status all those issues will magically disappear. Why invest our money fixing a broken street like State when we can spend it fixing something that isn't broken?

Anonymous said...

Bush's fault.

The WonderKazeLand said...

Aren't these big city problems grand? This means we've arrived!!!

Anonymous said...

You said it - nothing conjures up visions of Paris or Rome like crumbling streets ;-)

KaptKangaroo said...

Nah...it is ok in the city..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWXcjYNZais

Two ways....;)

KaptKangaroo said...

And hey this is for .... aw shucks... I'm as bad as the Fondren Bugle... I'm promoting music in this town.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-SFgkVlno

Literally, the word verification was...

mushy

Hey KF, are you tracking my words...? Ugh.

KaptKangaroo said...

Sorry, here is the correct link.

http://www.archive.org/details/gd78-12-19.sony.barrick.305.sbeok.shnf

captcha word

steif

Anonymous said...

am i on the wrong link????

Anonymous said...

That looks like a nasty mess.

Ah, wouldn't you love to be the Honorable Mayor Harvey Johnson come Monday morning? Jackson is just looking cuter than a whole sack full of fuzzie bunnies. Wheeee!

Anonymous said...

Johnson's ineptitude doesn't vary with the day of the week. He is equally ineffective all days.

Anonymous said...

Ineptitude is not the issue.

Looks like a water line break to me.

More of these are guaranteed until Jackson finds the hundreds of millions of dollars required to replace its' antiquated water and sewer pipes and engineers develop methods to totally negate the effects of Yazoo Clay.

Remember how many times I-20 between Clinton and Vicksburg has been demolished (not repaved, but demolished) and re-built over the past 30 years to mitigate the effects of Yazoo Clay? I know of at least five different trial and error solutions. The latest I-20 anti-yazoo clay solution involved utilizing deep subsurface over-excavation, micro-fiber underdrains, porous ashpalt sub-base and finally a full depth concrete wearing surface. So far this soultion has lasted. MDOT's "ineptitude" in this area was funded with Federal Highway dollars.

Obviously Jackson's solution, as well as the solution for the infrastructure needs of all of the US's failing infrastructre needs will have to be Federal...as usual.

Paul Mitchell said...

Ah yes, Frank, the old federal money pyramid scheme. The only problem with that is REAL MONEY is needed to make the repairs. If the city of Jackson cannot pay for their own stuff, what city, county, or state should pay for those things?

Who should we take money FROM to support Jackson?

Anonymous said...

You get what you pay for -- nothing for nothing.

Anonymous said...

@ +58 mils Jackson taxpayers sure as hell are paying.



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