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@donovansilletti1913

3 жыл бұрын

Practical Engineering I hope you and your wife are doing well. I always enjoy your videos!

@kerred

3 жыл бұрын

Just curious, does tiny movement of the earth also affect roads? I have it in my mind that the ground is always shifting around ever-so-slightly

@viridiscoyote7038

3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, our road was littered with potholes that the county wouldn't fix. When we were pouring concrete inside the barn, our parents gave us a wheelbarrow full of leftover mix and told us to go down and fill them. While we were doing it, dad called up the county to "let them know we were taking care of the potholes ourselves." "Taking care how?" "Filling them with concrete." "What?!? Do NOT do that!" "Too late, the kids have been gone for at least an hour." The concrete set overnight (very low traffic road). The county was out patching asphalt over our patches the very next day. The patches are still there, over a decade later!

@Ikantspell4

3 жыл бұрын

Wondering if you engineers know if that super permeable road stuff helps or hurts the longevity of a road. On the one hand I suspect it's good to keep the road dry but suspect if a highly porous material did get ice in it it would be split in no time flat. Any material experts know about that oddball stuff?

@BlackDragonWitheHawk

3 жыл бұрын

@@vctrtls railroads are only superior if they exist, are electrified and cheap enough for the majority of the population to use them, if the network and for gods, the sorting and delivery systems are not built they are pretty inefficient. And building new railroads today is a thing that is way more expensive than streets.

So, funny story about that whole having paved roads thing... here in Illinois, we have a saying: "In England, we drive on the left. In Illinois, we drive on what's left."

@jimmyshrimbe9361

3 жыл бұрын

Thomas Junker yeah, West Virginia, too.

@barrettt8661

3 жыл бұрын

That's pretty funny!

@smorris12

3 жыл бұрын

That'd only be funny if the roads over here in the UK weren't like driving over a ploughed field in the first place!

@V3GAS4CE

3 жыл бұрын

@@smorris12 yeah, they're quite bad.

@swoyambhattarai1011

3 жыл бұрын

In nepal we have nothing leff

In my country, the government has managed to significantly reduce the costs of road maintenance by simply not doing it. edit: from Hungary, stop asking

@USSAnimeNCC-

3 жыл бұрын

Oof

@Mr.Legend_Speaks

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂🤘🤘

@francofranco9815

3 жыл бұрын

You got me in the first half

@charlessmith6412

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like some states I've driven in. I wonder what they do with the tax money they claim to collect for road maintenance?

@dakunssd

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlessmith6412 Gotta finance tax breaks for Google, Amazon & Co somehow.

“The only thing that gets bigger the more you take away” - reminded me of Brok’s riddle all over again in GOW

how potholes work: truck drivers wait till they're full of water, then hit em with every wheel they can.

@raven4k998

2 жыл бұрын

well that and if your a dumbass driving a car with low pro tires and you hit a pot hole your tire ends up rolling away from your car and your driving on your rim like an idiot crying about your stupid tires

@tomv3361

2 жыл бұрын

😃

@Whiboi

2 жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 love my 265/35/18 continentals Low profile (not stretched) Is the way to go if the roads aren’t too terrible around you just don’t ever run low profile runflats they’re truly awful, my factory steel rims had 3 cracks from run flat tires; I’ve been running standard low profiles on my daily driver for 2 years 50k miles with motegi alloys and no bends yet, also the wider the tire the more impact it will absorb.

@raven4k998

2 жыл бұрын

@@Whiboi oo cool you drive self removing tires I love watching those things come off people cars when they hit a pot hole it's hilarious this one time I had to stop at a red light just chilling then all of a sudden I see a tire rolling by look over and a car pulls up not tire on the rim hilarious and cool to watch so watch out for pot holes and only hit one if you see me

@surgeonso4345

2 жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 305/35R26 on my Tahoe. Does that make you cry worrying about what ppl have on their vehicle?

4:18 In Canada we have four seasons: Almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.

@foty8679

3 жыл бұрын

@bro ha In Germany the last time i saw snow was 5 years ago

@michaelesposito2629

3 жыл бұрын

bro ha I live in Florida. And no

@Ostsol

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelesposito2629 Less potholes, more sinkholes?

@apolloisnotashirt

3 жыл бұрын

In Philippines we have four seasons: Summer, Summer, a lil bit of rain and Summer.

@Ben-dy9gh

3 жыл бұрын

I thought we had 2 here in the north, winter and road construction

Therefore, in Russia there is an expression “spring has come and the asphalt has melted along with the snow”.

@fridaycaliforniaa236

3 жыл бұрын

lol I love this one. Greetings from France =)

@isavana33

3 жыл бұрын

Ты забыл добавить, что только в России могут быть перепады температуры с +3 до - 2 каждый день! Вот например этой весной, таких дней было 10 подряд! Весна у нас очень долгая и таких дней очень много! Физику изучали, знаете что происходит с водой при замерзании?

@sergeyk856

3 жыл бұрын

@@isavana33 "Только в России"! Ага, в других странах такого быть не может. Сдается мне проблема не в этом.

@isavana33

3 жыл бұрын

@@sergeyk856 покажи в какой?

@sergeyk856

3 жыл бұрын

@@isavana33 Беларусь подойдет? Казахстан? Польша? Финляндия? Все страны которые далеко от экватора и от морей/океанов подвержены таким перепадам температур. Да те же США откуда автор. Если говорить о северных штатах.

Grady, you're an example of what's right with the engineering, education, KZread, and the world in general. Thanks for your example and efforts in this video and others!

This sheds some light on a recent mystery for me on my residential street actually. We had this one spot that kept developing pothole - but what I mean here is not "once a year," instead the asphalt was disintegrating after every single heavy rain! And living in the southeast USA, heavy rains are REAL common. Eventually the city came in and did a bunch of digging, a trench across the width of the street - that poor crew had to spend almost 14 hours digging up something and then putting it all back. Later on I found out from the neighbor, there was a city water pipe that had some kind of leak or crack...and I'd wondered what on earth that had to do with the road. No one had needed to boil their water or anything like that, so I thought "how bad of a crack could it have been?" But learning this - I understand much better now - it wouldn't need to be a big crack at ALL to make the dirt beneath the road way erode. And when the city tried just patching the potholes - the water pipe was still the problem. So naturally the rains just took away the patch and widened the hole even more!

"How do portholes work?" It works when the government doesn't.

@frankstrawnation

3 жыл бұрын

If so, the potholes work 24/7.

@monad_tcp

3 жыл бұрын

I wish every time I got a speeding ticket, a pot hole would be closed with that money... But they don't, so I just change plates.

@pranavtiwari_yt

3 жыл бұрын

@@akshayasimha ye India wale har jagah kahe aa jate hai😂😂

@OdysseyABMS

3 жыл бұрын

@@mdcclxxviepluribusunum1066 you sound like those generic trump supporters that go on facebook and harass people

@user-ez3iv6ji5c

3 жыл бұрын

@@OdysseyABMS his name of choice practically screams “deep state” or some other QAnon/Trump(is there really a separation, lmao?) talking point.

Your channel inspired me to study civil engineering, now on 3rd semester.

@adnanansari1925

3 жыл бұрын

@@sauravsharma9357 there's still hope for you if you change your branch right now

@chrisnormal9595

3 жыл бұрын

saurav sharma toxic mindset like that definitely won’t get you a job

@gud1kk

3 жыл бұрын

saurav sharma Depends. LOTS of jobs here in Denmark.

@apolloisnotashirt

3 жыл бұрын

Is it hard?

@abradablincoln3052

3 жыл бұрын

saurav sharma What are you talking about? You're telling me you don't use the service that ANY Civil Engineer provides? So you don't live in a house with a roof, you don't drive on a road, and you don't drink water?? Sounds about right lol

"Driving is a little dull." Miata Drivers: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that."

@jecht86

2 жыл бұрын

basically anyone with a fun car to drive and place to do it freely.

@MucaroBoricua

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha, I just write a similar comment before finding yours.

This is why it is so important to not drive into flooded road. You have no idea how much has actually eroded under that water and in major storms it can be a shockingly large amount of missing road and subgrade.

"something we've all experienced once or twice" Yeah, once or twice a day

@Poolie

3 жыл бұрын

@PathOfPirate same in atlanta ga

@bassam_salim

3 жыл бұрын

You are really lucky, there is one 5 meter from my door, a big whole right next to a bump, there are lots of holes in the highway which I need to take to go to anywhere outside my town, there is a section where a lot of heacy semis drive, there is about 2-3 holes a meter

@AmericanIdiot7659

3 жыл бұрын

@@bassam_salim you mean every 12680.3 US cups

@Jaymac720

3 жыл бұрын

Only once or twice? Must be nice. I’m a delivery driver so I spend hours at a time on neglected streets. So many neighborhood streets are just falling apart and no one will do anything about it

@HyTricksyy

3 жыл бұрын

also you can't get on a bus or other vehicle and "go somewhere else in relative ease" in most of the world either. Most of the northern hemisphere, yes. World? No.

The biggest reason most potholes come back is they don't address the underlying issue. The subsoil is not stable. In my area(the Texas gulf coast) we have a high clay content soil we call gumbo. It has very high amounts of hydraulic movement. To prevent this, the subsoil is now stabilized by mixing in cement for 10-14 inches, before the base goes down. That prevents most potholes before they start. To repair a pothole, they dig up enough asphalt and bas to get a tiller down to the subsoil and do the same thing. Then they put it back together in 1-2 inch lifts.

@biggiganticbones

3 жыл бұрын

If that is true, maybe potholes come back so workers can keep coming back?

@danieljensen2626

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, but doing all that work might be more expensive than just repeatedly filling the potholes, at least in some places.

@FartassVolfgangus

3 жыл бұрын

Lol not sure where you are but in Houston we certainly don’t fix potholes right. Usually a truck that sprays glue and fulls the hole with asphalt. So we just kinda halfway fill them, no where near actually fixing them.

@Paul-pj5qu

3 жыл бұрын

Those of us that live in areas with real winter can only dream of having as relatively few problems as Texas, no matter how they are "fixed".

@myprofilenameisreallylongl5956

3 жыл бұрын

I have a friend that is a supervisor for the company that does all the roads in my city and he says they do some things wrong so they get paid to fix it later

I think especially since working from home this last year and a half, driving has become a pleasure for me. Driving represents freedom and opportunity to me. I can go from place to place. I can go see my family. I am grateful to be able to drive. I used to commute an hour and a half each day for work before I relocated. Now I have a short commute. I don't ever want to take driving for granted again.

This video is a really great understanding of the industry and the logistics and bureaucracy involved. I run a road work crew and I work flat out trying to repair potholes but as much as I can fix them, I have one crew with a city of 45 suburbs and thousands of kilometres of roads. My brief is to rapidly make them safe until a patching crew can repair them permanently. Unfortunately I have to return to some sites multiple times because there are not enough resources to go around to fix every little pothole permanently, hence the constant bandaids. Besides, it’s not cost effective to send an entire patching crew to repair a tiny road section. It’s a trade off between permanent repair and coverage of an area. I work a dangerous job where I’m constantly on the road and as I’m visible to the community cop the understandable ire of them, but I’m working hard to make the roads safe and I also live in the city and actually care so a little understanding from the community and education would go a long way. The irony is people get annoyed that you’re impeding traffic briefly but also want the problems fixed.

This guy matches almost perfectly my stereotypical image of an engineer... And he's good at what he does. Accurate explanation, easy to understand. Thumbs up

@moh19931000

2 жыл бұрын

What he wears a glass? 😂🤦

@apidas

2 жыл бұрын

it's racist to judge someone/anyone based on their stereotypes. even if that's a compliment.

@xxgamerboyxxx-zb1uq

2 жыл бұрын

@@apidas what does race have to do wit this

@xxgamerboyxxx-zb1uq

2 жыл бұрын

@@apidas racism is based on racial superioroty, hes just calling the dude smart and competent which is what he expects enginners to be

@rosecroix77

2 жыл бұрын

@@apidas Hahahahahaha! 😂

"Something we've all experienced once or twice"- Once or twice every minute here in South Africa.

@Southfrancewineseller

3 жыл бұрын

same for russia mate :)

@londamavundla1400

3 жыл бұрын

So funny. Was watching this and thinking exactly the same, being in Johannesburg, South Africa. I'm tempted to share this video with the Johannesburg Roads Agency. They might learn a thing or two. Especially as we heard towards the rainy season.

@wksjunior95

3 жыл бұрын

Brazil is not so far from you guys!!

@jmr

3 жыл бұрын

Here in Michigan you can find the potholes by looking for fisherman or swimmers.

@benfromsl2235

3 жыл бұрын

Quite literally the whole road in canada

I am a trucker and just discovered your channel. I am the guy who likes driving and do 600 plus miles per day its really cool learning how the stuff is built i use everyday. Keep up the good work 😁

@furrycircuitry2378

Жыл бұрын

Say man you're a crazy one aren't you? 8 hours of driving daily is insane haha!

@MangaGamified

Жыл бұрын

not too related but do you bring any self defense "tools"?

@kanaka118446

Жыл бұрын

600 miles is nothing son

I definitely would not consider myself an engineer, I cook for a living and am terrible at math. But you have made learning more about engineering so fun!!!! Thank you Grady!!!

A perfect pothole postulation at this early hour.

@AlexSmith-gr4hp

3 жыл бұрын

You've had a whole lot of pot.

@Seorful

3 жыл бұрын

Early?

@SangheiliSpecOp

3 жыл бұрын

Nice alliteration

@Stevethe11th

3 жыл бұрын

Seorful depends on where you live. If you live in the us then yes it is early

@adamsteeber

3 жыл бұрын

The PPP we all need

"Politicians, government officials... drive on the same road as everyone else" Hahahaha that was a good one, I'm crying

@amistrophy

3 жыл бұрын

helicopter and private jets go brrrr

@darksideorbit8898

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah because every politician and government official has their own air force one right?

@davidelzinga9757

3 жыл бұрын

You’ll know when they drive on the road you live on when you get notices from the city telling you how to maintain your house and yard, and pointing out the defects you hadn’t even noticed on your stuff

@jacobfreeman5444

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I know how it goes. The roads going to the politician's home are spotless and the rest of them look like a third world country war zone.

@DamirMaatar

3 жыл бұрын

@@darksideorbit8898 not their own, chartering a jet is very expensive. But every time they need it they can lease a jet at a private airport.

Pot hole stories: When I was nine in jamaica my uncle put me on duty to watch out for pot holes (it was at night) I was pretty good at finding them During my last trip to jamaica my uncles van was losing so much gasoline, when we where leaving we found out the problem , a pothole caused the gas tank to leak, That’s my pothole stories.

@i_know_youre_right_but

Жыл бұрын

After visiting Jamaica I will never complain about potholes again. In Jamaica they don’t have potholes, they have craters.

@keiraystargaryen9577

6 ай бұрын

Come Barbados too.. roads like craters here too. Government ent doing nothing.. not one thing. Stupsesss 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️😒😑🙃

Potholes in western PA were a constant problem in the heavy industry traffic and servere winter days from decades past. Most of the road weren't treated with tar for some reason but the few that were treated with tar held up very well. Some were tarred and sprinkled with rocks. They never got potholes.Nice explanation of the pothole process.

"Colder countries have more potholes." Indian politicians: we'll prove you soooo wrong.

@RahulGupta-pf4yt

3 жыл бұрын

Kasam se bhai

@Bremend

3 жыл бұрын

I heard dirt roads don't last as long as paved ones

@MayankSarkar

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 true

@punknoodles0

3 жыл бұрын

States that have no money or just contract to the lowest bidder have more potholes. FTFY

@corrauniverse269

3 жыл бұрын

India has a strong wet season though which, for obvious reasons, erodes quite a bit

Grady: How do potholes work? Well I never knew they were a feature.

@preevetElizabeth

3 жыл бұрын

It's not a bug it's a feature!

@cyruz1265

3 жыл бұрын

@@preevetElizabeth todd's fans be like

@aniksamiurrahman6365

3 жыл бұрын

Next vid: How to engineer potholes.

@kalyankumar239

3 жыл бұрын

They work as speed breakers. Indeed a feature.

Thank you for appreciating highways and understanding their massive importance and the huge challenges faced maintaining them for everyone.

how appropriate that this showed up in my feed today. It's spring, and there are a lot of potholes gradually being uncovered as the snow melts. Now we've had another snowstorm and temperatures dropped below freezing again, so a lot of water probably froze underneath the tarmac, giving us even more potholes when it warms back up.

"So, roadway owners spend a lot of time and money fixing them" *ha-ha*

@adamatkinson2728

3 жыл бұрын

In the oven.

@zxbigmikexz

3 жыл бұрын

_insert _*_CinemaSins_*_ laugh._

@FamiliarGecko

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, they spend a lot of time on it. A lot of time _on only a single pothole..._

@cmdraftbrn

3 жыл бұрын

@@zxbigmikexz *ding*

@thijsd

3 жыл бұрын

Build shitty roads, spend a fortune on repairs and then replace the road with another shitty one...

My country has marvelled this technology..we have cutting edge potholes BTW I am from India.

@IIGrayfoxII

3 жыл бұрын

You just copied your technology from the Glorious Nation of Russia.

@availablehage

3 жыл бұрын

@@IIGrayfoxII correction...it was from thd soviets..we have a joke here...you got potholes on road,we Got roads on potholes...

@deus_ex_machina_

3 жыл бұрын

@@IIGrayfoxII In Soviet Russia, roads drive you (mad)

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

pothole will keep happen as long you don't resurface the road which will take more time just fixing.. another way to sovle is the reduce the heavy truck.

@TROXXOS

3 жыл бұрын

i don't like potholes with cutting edge

This is one of the channels where you can like every video before even seeing it. I love the explanations with the small flow models and so on, it’s just great!

I suppose it depends on the environment, but I thought there was a lot of evidence showing roads with a concrete base cost significantly less long term because of the reduced maintenance cost. As well, when they do need resurfaced, it is pretty simple as the foundation will most likely still be fine. Here in the UK, we tend to use very cheap, simple road designs, and it definitely shows. We also route all utilities under roads by default, which means that, even when you do get a nice new road surface, within a year a utility company will have been granted a licence to dig a massive trench through it and leave it with a big patch that will inevitably cause a pothole pretty soon. Madness. The fact that we route utilities under the roads actually incentivises us to use bad road designs as the utility companies don't want to have to dig through concrete every time they have to service the infrastructure.

"Potholes are worse in freezing conditions-" They're even worse in a corrupted system.

@aniksamiurrahman6365

3 жыл бұрын

I know right. That explains why most tropical countries have more potholes on their roads than colder ones.

@shdba

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this. Up you go!

@uglyogre63

3 жыл бұрын

*Laughs in Balkan*

@afilina

3 жыл бұрын

Quebec, where you have both in abundance :)

@eirin099

3 жыл бұрын

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 no

Biggest thing that helped in my city is that they were no longer immune from liability due to damage to cars caused by potholes. That fixed things pretty quick when the insurance company started going after them.

@mihirneema

Жыл бұрын

In which country?

“Something everyone has experienced once or twice, let’s talk about potholes.” *Laughs in Michigan*

@Phon3y

3 жыл бұрын

Pure Michigan 💪

@Coin1_

2 жыл бұрын

laughs in illinois

@jmodified

2 жыл бұрын

Long ago when I lived in Michigan, there was none of this vibrating compactor nonsense as in this video. They just piled the pothole high with asphalt and let the traffic do the compacting. Hopefully that is no longer the case.

I hope this video remains publically available and doesn't get hidden or deleted. I find this kind of content absolutely fascinating.

I sure wish I could force my taxes to be spent on roads and infrastructure.

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714

3 жыл бұрын

Instead of private mansions.

@asiansupport630

3 жыл бұрын

Especially multi-billion dollar corporate social welfare cheques to exon-mobil, who definitely does not need it. (But also happens to “donate” millions to our government officials)

@michaelbuckers

3 жыл бұрын

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 For the cost of repairing roads for 1 year, thousands of such mansions could be built. But there are only a handful. It's not a big deal.

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbuckers Its not about the scale its about the princaple. Palices are not the only things the corrupt will use money for once they start taking it from the tax payers.

@michaelbuckers

3 жыл бұрын

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Eh. The worst corruption amounts to less than 1% of the budget being appropriated. So yeah it's a matter of principle- because it's not actually significant enough to be important.

"You've all experienced potholes at least once or twice" *laughs in Michigan*

@KaitouKaiju

3 жыл бұрын

The Great Lakes are just Paul Bunyan's potholes

@SouryaYallapragada

3 жыл бұрын

Cries in Indian

@kirknay

3 жыл бұрын

You think that's bad, look at the highways going east out of Kansas City. That entire stretch of highway is pure pothole.

@ridhosamudro2199

3 жыл бұрын

(swerves in rural Indonesian)

@mcyril4391

3 жыл бұрын

Laughs in Kenyan

I was an engineer at the site of a new road, when we were done I took a crew with what remained of the asphalt around town and hot-patched as many potholes as I could find.

@fadhlanfaidhan5311

2 жыл бұрын

and thank you for that

Have never really come across potholes in my country! The Netherlands really does make some great roads and other engineering marvels.

"There are lots of ways to build roads - from yellow bricks to rainbows" Yes, sir. I am looking forward to the new Rainbow Road episode.

@bungalo50

2 жыл бұрын

The most scenic roads in existence!

@Dakota__69

2 жыл бұрын

With enough cars leaking oil, every road can be a rainbow road! Not trying no make a statement or anything, just a shitty joke.

@greenyawgmoth

2 жыл бұрын

I wanna know the engineering challenges of a blue shell.

@Sebbarrette

2 жыл бұрын

When you'll drive a Tesla, press 4x on the right handle behind the steering wheel. Et voilà !! you have a rainbow road !

@wattsnottaken1

2 жыл бұрын

Any kid who grew up playing Mario Kart got nostalgic vibes when he mentioned road made of rainbow 🌈 😏😎

"Roadway owners spend a lot of time and money fixing them (potholes)." Press X to doubt.

@kaboomwinn4394

3 жыл бұрын

X as long as you not living near HOA. If you do you have to wait a few months for them to repair the road.

@FelonyVideos

3 жыл бұрын

X

@Dan_Ben_Michael

3 жыл бұрын

I actually work in road repair and run roadwork crews so I know exactly what the local government spends on road repair almost to the cent, and my crew alone uses $100,000 alone in asphalt per annum. Add to that the wages and running costs (fuel, maintenance, miscellaneous equipment etc) it’s close to $500,000 without taking into account the initial outlay of $600,000 for a asphalt patching truck, for a crew to repair a city of 46 suburbs, with thousands of kilometres of roads. There’s only one minor patching (pothole) crew for a city of 405 square kilometres. It’s not necessarily a money problem because I live in a well funded city that’s never been in the red once since convicts built the roads in the first place, but a resource problem and logistics problem and a growing city with high volume of traffic with increasing heavy vehicular traffic problem. I work a minimum 60 hours a week to fix the roads but it’s just not feasible a city of my size to have only one crew running, but unfortunately the public don’t want to spend a million dollars to get another crew up and running so the short of it is I’m one man trying to solve everyone’s problems and cop abuse from pissed off residents. TLDR: Road owners do spend a lot of money and time repairing roads but it’s a very complex issue.

@hunterx0736

3 жыл бұрын

Wyoming does otherwise. Lots of roads few people yet the road crews are constant in summer.

@Speedy4417

3 жыл бұрын

X

I wake up excited to drive. Driving is a highlight of my day. I drive further on purpose. I bought a manual on purpose. I absolutely love to drive!

@MangaGamified

Жыл бұрын

manual gear?

@corsac_

Жыл бұрын

@@MangaGamified manual transmission

this is why i love these videos.. i started off thinking, i know how potholes form, why do we need a video on it? and halfway thru i was learning so many new things and it's logical and lovely 😌

Title: "How do potholes work"? Answer: They don't work

@eavyeavy2864

3 жыл бұрын

Dumb reply

@junztermax4387

3 жыл бұрын

You didn't even understand the sentence

@shiezo

3 жыл бұрын

You thought you did something

@rakingyoutube

3 жыл бұрын

They do work. Their primary function is to destroy your rims.

@gautamgopal3517

3 жыл бұрын

Nice joke 👍 don't mind the idiots down here who haven't understood it!

For all the German viewers out there: Yes this is real, it's not a prank video, or an April Fools'. We actually have lots and lots of potholes where I live.

@antipoti

3 жыл бұрын

@Juden Arier Dude, I was making a joke, no need to get upset. Also, I have lived in Germany for some time, and when I came back to Hungary, the roads seemed unbelievably nightmarish in comparison.

@Jonas4ish

3 жыл бұрын

@Juden Arier Alles mit der ruhe hehehe bei uns in Niedersachsen gibt es keine Gründe sich auf zu regen. Da trinken wir halt ein Bier.

@xmtxx

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same for france. In the countryside, I'm always amazed at the quality of the roads. The worse is in paris, but as bad as it is, there are no potholes.

@BK-qp8zp

3 жыл бұрын

OMG, I loved living in Germany (stationed there for 13 years) and one of those reasons was NO POTHOLES!

@lkhagwadorj

3 жыл бұрын

here in Mongolia potholes work as speed limiter !!!

That’s crazy because ALL I look forward to in the morning, at work, or even out wit friends, is the moment I get to get behind the wheel. My favorite part of any day. Driving provides me with clarity and focus like nothing else does

@jeffjeff8750

2 жыл бұрын

What planet are you from

@danielsoule3737

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffjeff8750 same one as you but I jus have no friends 😎

Thank you Grady for opening my eyes! you make me appreciate things that never even crossed my mind before. JOINED!

"Something we've all experienced once or twice" Idk. In Chicago you'll experience it once or twice per block.

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

In Delhi u'll experience it after every 5 cms.

@EPiCxPS3

3 жыл бұрын

in New-Brunswick, Canada they just use the potholes as a cheaper variant of speedbumps and never patch them

@gabrielgarcia9822

3 жыл бұрын

There's always *that* road

@ScottHammet

3 жыл бұрын

I had a buddy in college from Chicago. In the summer, he worked on a pothole maintenance crew. Common practice was to fix as few holes as possible, if any, and pave driveways for cash with the asphalt instead. He said it was a coveted job due to the large cash income that crews could make (he had family that ran a few crews, which is how he got his summer jobs).

@damoos3.

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScottHammet lol that's called corruption and theft

Practical Engineering: How do potholes work? Literally everyone: They don't.

@jimmysgameclips

3 жыл бұрын

Practical Engineering: How do potholes work? Ukraine: Hello everyone

@TheOfficialCzex

3 жыл бұрын

Ah... You beat me to it.

@MrAranton

3 жыл бұрын

As though they were stoned.

@aniksamiurrahman6365

3 жыл бұрын

Next vid: How to engineer a pothole/Marvel of pothole designs.

@Ron.S.

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called reliability engineering - the council paves the roads only for them to stay safe for a period of time. This way, the public sector has a justification for road works year round. Then the council puts the council tax up and is asking for more money from the government. That’s the english way at least - you’re stuck in the car in traffic, bad weather, Road works and lots of potholes.

I’m originally from Montreal, where roads and other infrastructure take a lot of maintenance to to seasonal large temperature fluctuations (+/- 40 deg). They’ve built a few highways using a concrete with polymers, no asphalt top layer. They’re as good now as when they were installed over two decades ago.

When I attended the USAF NCO Academy the best speech was by a Civil Engineering troop explaining how to correctly fix potholes vs. the cheap "throw and go" (he said that was the industry term) method of filling with asphalt. Interesting stuff insightful to best practices.

6:40 I love your explanation of how we "choose" potholes. Please run for public office.

@AlphaSections

3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure even with more taxes, they still wouldn't fix the roads. I would all go to political embezzlements and insider kickbacks.

@mtldax

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlphaSections If we had more engineers, scientists, and professionals in government we'd have fewer issues. I agree with Richard

@zncon

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah... What a world where we could actually decide how our money is spent...

@dan_loup

3 жыл бұрын

Politicians always have to answer to "people of influence" regardless of the political system etc. You're probably better off becoming one of those.

@jakedee4117

3 жыл бұрын

It's a good sign of a bankrupt or corrupt municipality

In Japan : "Wow, that's a potholes !" 3 days later, no potholes In Indonesia : "Wow, that's a potholes !", a year later, the same potholes still exist (even bigger than before)

@slowmonet

3 жыл бұрын

Get on Brazil's level: People had a birthday party for the pothole on their street i.imgur DOT com/i0r5iwQ.jpg

@m4x927

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the well developed asian countries have very well maintained roads.

@RalphH007

3 жыл бұрын

Soooo, Indonesian potholes are much much better made than Japanese ones, right? :)

@fv457

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same here in NYC

@varunjaihind3904

3 жыл бұрын

Same in India. Growing potholes.

I’ve only been driving for a decade, but I’ve loved every minute of it. Just have to be into cars, and have a fun car to scoot around in. The highlight of my daily grind is the half mile long empty road on my commute.

Long ago, when most roads were dirt, each village would have an assortment of craftsmen. Blacksmiths, carpenters, bakers, potters etc. Sometimes, when asked to make a pot, the potter would look for the most finely pulverized clay around and often find it in the wagon ruts of a nearby road. When he dug up the clay for his pot the hole he left was called a POTHOLE. I really enjoy your content Grady.

I can explain exactly how potholes work in Illinois. Step 1 - Build the cheapest road possible. Step 2 - Wait for potholes to develop. Step 3 - Campaign for re-election on fixing the potholes. Step 4 - Get re-elected. Step 5 - Repair the potholes in the cheapest possible way (using one of your favorite campaign contributors). Step 6 - Wait for potholes to reappear. Step 6 - Repeat for your entire political career.

@anthonyaguirre7143

3 жыл бұрын

Lived in DuPage County for a bit here. I've heard the heavy salt application during snow removal also deteriorates the blacktop. True?

@michaelcimino7435

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyaguirre7143 yes because salt keeps water in liquid form at a lower temperature. In other words, that trapped water creates a lens that stays around for longer in the subgrade. It also means it undergoes many more freeze-thaw cycles exacerbating erosion

@chickey333

3 жыл бұрын

Step 7 - And don't forget to hug a union rep and thank them generously.

One of the benefits of being interested in cars, driving is almost never boring. I'll drive for hours on end and love it.

@zachdonald9343

2 жыл бұрын

I agree also cars now are so disconnected from everything and style wise are copy and paste of one another antiques are where its at the amount of information that's sent to you though the wheel, brakes, gas, and just the butt alone makes cars much more enjoyable than new ones

@arbitros2322

2 жыл бұрын

in particular when you do the work on your car, driving isnt just the experience of driving but also determining the mechanical function of the work you just did or the car as a whole lol

@perlyg

2 жыл бұрын

its all fun n games until you have to doge potholes every 2 mins and im not joking

@letheas6175

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, nice that you do. But I think I could never, I'm glad I have the freedom not to take a car because everything is reachable by other, more convenient or relaxed ways of transportation. Plus clean air, high living standards, and such are just things I could never miss.

@user-76-ex

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh, very addictive drug.

I remember one time we almost broke down in the middle of a highway because of a large group of potholes in the middle of a busy highway. We were experiencing a La Niña event and had a long series of torrential rain, which also greatly limited visibility to less than 30 metres (100 feet). While driving down this highway at two thirds of the speed limit downhill, I spotted several huge potholes and quickly relayed my observations to my mum, who was driving at the time. She swerved just in time to avoid like 10 or 15 potholes, each one large and deep enough to cause serious damage to a vehicle. After narrowly missing the potholes at the bottom of the hill, we passed several vehicles rendered inoperable because the potholes either popped tyres or worse, destroyed the entire wheel, including the mounts and axles.

This has become my new fav channel to binge. Thank you!

In humid tropical regions, potholes also form at a very high rate. There's no freeze-thaw action, but there is a seasonality in the subgrade's performance, depending on the alternation between wet and dry seasons. During the dry season, clay soils are hard and sturdy, and thus provide excellent support for the weight of vehicles. When the wet season comes in, water infiltrates and induces things like plasticity (clays absorb water and become soft and pliable), expansion (some clays absorb water into their molecular structure and increase in volume, much like the ice lenses in freezing conditions) and drainage problems (clays are less pervious than sands, gravels and loams), so the water often is limited to escaping under pressure through cracks and weak seams.

@scrumptious9673

Жыл бұрын

⭐️

1:45 Yellow brick road: Wizard of Oz Rainbow road: Mario Kart

@doh2dohman

3 жыл бұрын

yup, I had to rewind to make sure thats what I heard.

@FamiliarGecko

3 жыл бұрын

...you mean Kart, right? ...now I imagined Mario and friends racing around with shopping carts... ._.

"How do potholes work" are you telling me they deliberately made potholes to work on destroying my car? damned conspiracy! i knew it!

I have a Challenger, I enjoy driving lol. A well-paved road is one of the simple pleasures in my day

"You've all experienced potholes one or twice" man here in Balkan countries there is no street without potholes. Except in highways but in Croatia the highways do have potholes

@steamrestorer4559

3 жыл бұрын

My town has potholes on every other road because our road budget is shared with two other towns tho other two both being tourists attractions so they get all the budget and we get like £1

@foty8679

3 жыл бұрын

@@steamrestorer4559 In Germany i have never seen a pothole on the Autobahn. Would be quite dangerous driving over them with like ~210 kmh lol. Citys have some, mostly small towns.

@to0ony3

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, I dont think there are potholes on Croatian highways... They are very good except one Zagreb-Osijek. Rest of highways are fine.

@Jezusbeznogi

3 жыл бұрын

@@foty8679 What I like about the roads in Germany that when the holes in them are repaired the new surface is smoothed out so you cannot feel the transition between the old and new (repaired) road. While the road may look "spotty", and you can clearly see where the potholes used to be, you do not feel it while driving, it's all smooth.

@Jezusbeznogi

3 жыл бұрын

I was in Croatia (Istria specifically) in January this year, I travelled on local roads 99% of the time and I must say the y were very good quality. Even the apparently less-travelled ones in the sticks, like the one I used going from Trieste to Rijeka, where I only saw two other cars during the 90 minute-trip from the Slovenian border was really nice. The next day I spent driving along some crazy winding roads consisting almost entirely of hairpin bends :), and it was OK as well. I also drove on local roads all the way to the Hungarian border and I found no reason to complain. I don't know about the southern part of your country, but the north has nothing to be ashamed of. The coastal stretch from Opatia to Zagorie was fantastic.

Over here on clay soil, I see that 30cm of gravel and 15cm of iron-smelter residue is used to drain water to the ditches. The smelter rocks are not as easy to wash away.

@benuscore8780

3 жыл бұрын

I think by "iron-smelter residue" you mean slag?

@Aimless6

3 жыл бұрын

@@benuscore8780 correct. I didn't remember the word. In Dutch, it's called 'hoogovenslakken'. 'tall furnace snails' doesn't make much sense in English.

@paulmanson253

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. The Romans more or less did the same thing. The slag from iron bloomeries was used in road building wherever possible. Occasionally,lightning strikes will show where this was done in no longer used sections. The slag is conductive,and a whole section of sod will get torn up in the blast.

Great video The physical demonstration done in the glass tank was genius

I love all the slow-mo shots of cars hitting potholes. It's funny, but also oddly satisfying.

Driving isn't a dull experience imho.... especially when it's a manual. As a paper pusher, my most fulfiling moment of the day is probably my commute.

@Skullair313

3 жыл бұрын

I hate having to pay attention to the road in the morning when i'd rather be asleep. It probably depends on how congested your roads are

@SuperDeinVadda

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you need a new job IMHO

@faustin289

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperDeinVadda Yes, I do. But not so fast...this COVID-19 thing is no joke. I'm lucky to have a job at all. Many of my friends aren't so blessed.

@zazugee

3 жыл бұрын

commuting is dull but driving can be fun if you drive to a new place which nice scenery or drive a new vehicle/motorbike

@united3689

3 жыл бұрын

depends what car you got...and manual is not fun in peak hour traffic thats for sure

"So, roadway owners spend a lot of time and money fixing them" haha, yeah. It's a shame I live in a small city so they can't afford to fix the half-dozen potholes I have to swerve to avoid every night I'm driving home from work. Oh, but those new rustic streetlamps they put in and the crosswalk signals that nobody uses because there's like maybe three pedestrians a day sure do look really good!

@michaelbuckers

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah well those cost thousands, road repair costs millions.

@dustinhiggins710

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbuckers They cost millions because of politics.

@featuresnobodyaskedfor

3 жыл бұрын

What about that dude who started spray painting dicks around the potholes? That got them fixed pretty quick, have you considered trying that?

@claytech

3 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it! Same here - small, rural Midwestern town. Horrid side streets (main routes are maintained by the state), dilapidated homes in dying villages with less than 1300 people in them. It's all really sad and depressing, but not to the bureaucratic commissioners. They don't have to worry about getting their wittle feetsies wet when they go to the courthouse for a meeting with their fancy schmancy heated sidewalk tiles. Meanwhile, our small towns are starting to look like the seedy side of Cincinnati... ugh. :(

@beieber4life

3 жыл бұрын

Mi 28 I’m not an engineer but spending millions to fix twelve (12) potholes seems like an exaggeration. But I do see your point. @skele boner Run for mayor bro. Get some shit done in that small city

I wake up just to go for a drive sometimes! Between just loving to drive, and having a good audio system, I like commutes.

The great thing about dirt roads is that they don't need to be maintained and the only thing you need to worry about is downed trees/foliage. If there's a pothole, just fill it with dirt from the roadside! You can also get a nice mud bog paint job after it rains. Yee yee! 🤘🤠

“Poor condition” is just normal where I live. It is so nice when I find an area that was just paved and it suddenly feels like my teeth aren’t being shaken out of my head. Even then, it’s not always great. My local grocery store’s parking lot was getting a lot of pot holes so they repaved it. I’m pretty sure that they just put down a new layer of asphalt on top of the existing layer instead of properly tearing it up and flattening the ground. I realize parking lots are extremely busy areas and need to be constantly available, but half-assing a job is almost worse than not doing it at all. Louisiana does not know how to make roads. Even our highways aren’t made properly. One exit on I-10 has a huge bump in it. Granted it’s not that big but going over it at 45 mph is more than a little jarring. It’s not surprising that so many people here have crossovers or trucks with tires with high sidewalls. My wheels probably would have been destroyed by now if I didn’t have really tall tires

@off_mah_lawn2074

3 жыл бұрын

Try driving on CA roads....

"I dont wake up in the morning excited to jump in the car for my morning commute" Sounds like you need a more fun car, man.

@dleivam

3 жыл бұрын

Nahh, I love my car but I hate other drivers.. in my country is like a jungle, so I hate to drive here

@GabrielBoehm

3 жыл бұрын

This was my thought exactly. Besides a house, for most people's most expensive item is their car. You might as well care about it and enjoy it.

@snigwithasword1284

3 жыл бұрын

Public roads are generally a terrible place to have fun. Go to a closed track, an offroad park, mountain bike trail, even a winding country road, whatever. It's the difference between masturbating and having sex. To say nothing of being an asshat.

@jimmyrustler8799

3 жыл бұрын

@@snigwithasword1284 if you live on the middle of downtown LA yeah.

@MrMonsterAddict

3 жыл бұрын

You just gotta put some bitchin speakers in.

Always love your videos! Thanks for the great explanations.

I love the title. "How do potholes work?" Based on our county I believe they probably have a "pot hole machine" that makes pot holes since we are in a dry climate and we have more pot holes per mile of road than any other county around us. Been looking on the heavy equipment sites for a "pot hole maker" such as Cat, John Deere, Komatsu, etc. and did not see one listed. They must have had it custom made.

@incognitonegress3453

Жыл бұрын

Lpl

This guys sounds like he has a phd in talking

@rever4217

3 жыл бұрын

@Benjamin McCann wow, I read that perfectly in his voice as well.

@skiney

3 жыл бұрын

@Benjamin McCann "weird compliment but thanks?"

You can't put googly eyes on a pothole. They're soulless.

@UnoRunescaper

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps not googly eyes but apparently you can draw a phallus on a pothole. www.theverge.com/2015/5/2/8535259/penis-pothole-activism-wanksy-england

my morning and after work commutes are some of the best times of my days!

Welcome to Motala, Sweden. Here we have Varamon a 4km nice sand beach and a lot of potholes :)

@Practical Engineering - could you cover this topic more with explaining hydrostatic shocks? As I've understood it, upon hitting the water in a pothole, the resulting shock causes the water to be forced in to the road sublayers in macro- and microscopic fissures - and pumps out material as the water is squeezed (almost instantly) back out by the re-compacting ground as the fissures collapse. Like lightly stomping on a puddle on grass repeadetly causes the water to muddy up as fine particles are brought to the surface. If you continue and increase the force, material begins to be removed from the effected area by being ejected outwards. Now do this with traffic and you are literally pumping material out of the ground. The fissures ever deepen as the lessening of fine particles allows for water to be forced farther and farther, as there is nothing to dampen it's flow among larger paeticles. So you'll end up in a volume of material beneath the hole that's been rinsed with pressured water maybe thousands of times, fracked, decompressed, compressed. Rinse, repeat. I don't understand how fixing the situation could only include resurfacing, as now you're resurfacing a structure that's not the same as what surrounds it - the near-0-sized particles are missing and stable compaction cannot be achieved without those. So, what you're resurfacing is a moving, shaking, altering structure. This is a huge issue here in Finland.

As a professional driver, potholes are my arch nemesis, they must all be destroyed.

@scallywag1716

3 жыл бұрын

Or.....fixed? Wouldn’t destroying them only make them larger?

@unclekanethetiberiummain1994

3 жыл бұрын

@@scallywag1716 Destroy the road. No more potholes. Just simple pools of mud and water.

@SuperAWaC

3 жыл бұрын

professional driver, eh? is that what rideshare drivers are calling themselves these days?

@ridhosamudro2199

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperAWaC well, professional as in "it's his profession" so you just being snarky there, as we all know

@vallov4188

3 жыл бұрын

As a fellow professional driver, I couldn't agree more, which is why I step on the gas pedal and run them over extra quick!

I drive more than your average Joe. In the last 24 months have I driven roughly 75 000 km. I have had my licence for 6 years now and I still absolutely love to sit behind the wheel of a nice car as long as it is a manual. I even bought my dream car 2 weeks ago and I'm never as happy as I am when I'm driving that thing. (1973 Volvo P1800ES).

My city, Indianapolis, is a test area for pothole development and component testing on vehicles. Shocks, tires, rims, bumpers, etc. all get tested severely each winter. Cars and trucks from all over the country come through here for testing. And it's an ongoing study, it never ends.

"So roadway owners spend a lot of money to fix them" _Looks at the pothole that has been in the parking lot of our local supermarket for over a year_

@thecoolnerdplaysvr5674

3 жыл бұрын

I had a tire get blown out from a pothole nearly a foot deep from a parking lot.

@phife1878

2 жыл бұрын

A parking lot is not a roadway.

I actually used to get really excited before I was about to go somewhere, I just love all the engineering that goes into our roads and the vehicles we drive

Imagine how good the roads would be if the government was required to pay for any vehicle damage caused by potholes and other road defects

@cgiunta6542

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine how much insurance fraud that will cause

@simpleplan100687

3 жыл бұрын

@@cgiunta6542 Then imagine if we had a government who’s willing to take prevention action to stop the insurance fraud. Then again, the US loves to throw money into dumpster fires just to watch the fire grow

@mwbgaming28

3 жыл бұрын

@@cgiunta6542 there wouldn't be any insurance fraud relating to that because I guarantee the roads would be in perfect condition if the government was responsible for vehicle damage caused by poorly designed/maintained roads

@justeunfan3364

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if you were the one who pay governement to repair the roads ?

@mwbgaming28

3 жыл бұрын

@@justeunfan3364 but if they had to pay to repair vehicle damage caused by bad road maintenance, you'd at least be getting something for your tax dollars

Hi Grady. I enjoy your content. Here's something you might enjoy. Pot holes get their name in an interesting way. As you point out, roads have been around a long time. In the earliest days each community or village would have a compliment of the necessary craftsmen to fill the needs of the local population. Among these, of course, were potters. Potters knew the best soil for throwing pots was that which had been pounded until there were no clumps or stones in it. So they would dig holes in the ruts created by cart wheels as it had been naturally pounded to fine clay. The hole they dug out for pots we call pot holes. Ask me where we get the word " threshold ".

1:46 Grady I don't know how many rainbow roads you've driven on but I wouldn't exactly call them the pinnacles of contemporary engineering and safety. 30+ years yet they keep installing those blue shells

Title: How potholes work me : What a boring topic Channel: Practical Engineering me: Click! At this point I am myself surprised at how interesting you can make the most mundane of things. I cant have enough.

When watching channels like this, I keep asking myself... Why wasn't the high school or the university so interesting and fun in their presentations?

something I actually wanted to know, great job

i love driving, it's my favorite way to travel i'm always excited whenever i have to drive to somewhere, whether it's short or long distances i know i'm not the only one ...

@bassam_salim

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, but I hate when the streets are really busy

@flOGLife

3 жыл бұрын

Driving is wack as fuck I hate it. Probably because I don’t trust other people.

1:47 Rainbows?! Someone's been playing a lot of Mario Kart lately

@kathleenwilliam

3 жыл бұрын

In Northwest Botswana the potholes are as big as the elephants that create them in the first place. The holes are as large as a jumbo jaccuzi often spanning the width of the road.

Where i live the city has been fixing curbs and adding unnecessary islands with landscaping on them to the turning lanes. Meanwhile there are holey streets that need fixing.

We literally have a PITCH LAKE in my country yet we have some of the worst roads in the world. Good job Trinidad

The problem isn't that we aren't willing to pay taxes, it's the fact that we cannot choose where our taxes are going. Governments act like they are an authority over the land they span but the reality is that they should act like a service instead, that starts by allowing citizens to choose where their taxes go. WE pay with our time sacrificed to tasteless jobs and WE surrender our money because it's supposed to go for a service we should all receive.

@asktheetruscans9857

3 жыл бұрын

Human nature. 3rd party purchases work that way. Basically, its not their money, so they don't care if something is insufficient or not cost effective. They also don't have to produce something you value, at a budget you can afford, in order for you to pay for it. They just sick their goons on you with g u n s if you don't wish to pay (upfront). Taxation is theft/armed robbery, no matter what noble sounding euphemisms they give it. My company used to fix muni roads and parking lots, btw. First thing I'd ask when any project mgr or muni official called was "What are your fiscal budget requirements?" i.e. how much are you required (forced) to spend to make sure you get the same bloated, unnecessary budget next year. Then I'd say I could probably get close with about $200-$600 (depending on size of muni) leftover for you to put in petty cash, throw yourselves a much deserved office party, (probably embezzle) etc. Don't do that, don't get the job. Then we'd get interrupted 4-5 times, they'd refuse to pay standard overhead during forced down time, I'd sue them, they'd appeal multiple times which wasted more $ than they owed me, wait another year to get paid by the bankrupt jerks, end up 3-4 times over budget when they could've just not been so...Department of Redundancy Department about it all. I'd end up with slightly more profit than I'd make from the private sector, but with 1000 x's the aggrivation. The rest of the $ went to waste on lawyers and guys waiting around, not doing work. All for messing with big daddy govt. AND...your potholes would still be 2 years behind on getting fixed. So, yeah I know how corrupt the system is. Now that you know why there's such a thing as $5000.00 govt. toilet seats and $1000.00 hammers, next time you pay taxes, send a few toilet seats and a hammer. Tell them to keep the change. Man, I get grumpy on rain days... Hmm ...that, or I just got old.

@markcangila1613

3 жыл бұрын

@Danger Bear social programs help a shit ton of ppl but go off. Also, maybe the real target should be the military?

@cmdraftbrn

3 жыл бұрын

ding ding ding. we have a winner for paying attention.

@bloodmoonhowl

3 жыл бұрын

@@markcangila1613 What good is helping a segment of society when the we are all plagued by failing infrastructure? What good is a homeless shelter when there are lead pipes to replace, tunnels to repair and a bridge connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island that costs 19 dollars to cross?

@SuperBobKing

3 жыл бұрын

The idea with republic is that you vote for people who will make the decisions you want them to, such as where to spend taxes.

“How do potholes work” Ask my local government, they’ll give you exactly 0 real answers

@bluemountain4181

3 жыл бұрын

Could be worse, my local council is in the process of approving a set of new speed bumps to actively make the road worse

@Skullair313

3 жыл бұрын

Could be worse, imagine they approved a speed camera.

@tigerflyoutdoors7315

3 жыл бұрын

Dont be so quick to judge. They work harder than people think. And deal with many unreasonable people on a daily basis.

Idk bout yall but im hyped to go out and drive in the morning. Then again, mountain roads make every drive a joy