KingJames
Active Member
why must we have idiots tagging up new buildings (or old ones for that matter)
the good news is that that Hamilton's long range financial plan has it improving the state of its roads.. don't get me wrong, they won't be gleaming sheets of smooth asphalt any time soon, but the average condition should start to tick upwards.Look at the state of our roads LMAO. It's straight up embarrassing.
Yea, caused me to get another pinch flat on my bike the other day, so now I'm stuck walking because I'm too cheap to get my bike fixed.Look at the state of our roads LMAO. It's straight up embarrassing.
Part of it is historical lack of investment, which is thankfully improving. But I think there are three major factors at play:It's really shocking honestly. Go to any other municipality in Southern Ontario. London, KW, Guelph, Toronto, etc etc. Nothing as bad as ours. What I find more interesting, go to Ancaster. The roads are amazing, but downtown they are literally falling apart. How could that be?
it's also about how a road is repaved - a lot of Hamilton streets are paved with only a single layer of low-grade asphalt placed atop a narrow band of gravel above bare ground. So that means it falls apart quickly as wear and tear rips it up quickly.Part of it is historical lack of investment, which is thankfully improving. But I think there are three major factors at play:
1) Low quality road asphalt. There was a report that came out a few years back showing the city paid for new asphalt but contractors installed recycled lower quality asphalt.
2) Lack of maintenance, unlike nearby municipalities, Hamilton doesn't fill cracked in asphalt allowing water to penetrate and destroy the roads.
3) Another report showed that the city is really bad at auditing and prioritizing road reconstruction. Basically doing it where citizens complained the most, which means Ancaster and Waterdown and Stoney Creek get fixed the most because people living downtown have historically been disadvantaged and are not always capable of being in constant contact with the city.
My road was repaved in 2012, and is a disaster. Compare that to Upper Middle in Burlington which was repaved earlier that 2007 and looks in better shape and is in better shape despite more traffic and more truck traffic.
I had heard the city was to start maintaining roads by filling in cracks, I'm curious what happened to that.
You can't compare Oakville to Hamilton - Oakville is major money and they can afford to be pretty and have giant elven trees lolAs much as I love Hamilton I now work from home and my partner works in Oakville so we're seriously thinking of moving to Oakville and we were driving around both the older and newer parts of Oakville and their roads are like a dream there like I was in complete shock how good they are. Makes our roads and sidewalks even look like a 3rd world country in comparison.