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Lorenzo, tx | I'm not sure but I think that its through property taxes and vehicle registration. The commissioner has neglected them for years just kinda half way doing it for several years to the point that the roads are ruined. We've griped and chewed on him long enough that he finally decided to do something when he did that he realized that the roads were ruined, that anytime that someone went out to work on a road they were making it worse. Now it will cost a bunch to get them back to where they can be maintained and he doesn't want to do it. The other part of the problem is the county went out and bought 4 or 5 brand new graders and ate up there entire budget with new equipment and don't have any money for fuel and labor so they have new good equipment but don't use it. Also the guys they have running the graders are morons, they wont clean the ditches out at all. In the few places there is a little calichie or good road material they will blade it INTO the ditch. Instead of bringing road material out of the ditch a little at a time they make one pass down the road push whats left of a good road in the ditch and fill in the potholes and leave it wash board. Snow is not an issue here all they would have to do is keep the top bladed smooth and keep the ditches cleaned out so water doesn't wash across them. A lot of roads don't have any kind of ditch anymore. The road will be 5-6 ft lower than the fields beside it and only wide enough for a pickup to drive down. Sorry I ranted there maybe that answered your questions. We have basically 3 kinds of roads State, Farm to market (or farm) and county. State will be the bigger highways. Farm will be smaller paved roads may or may not be striped no shoulder. County are dirt roads that actually go between the fields. All of our roads are laid out square mile by mile so there is a road on all sides of a section. So there are hundreds of miles of roads. Only about 25% of these, the ones that get used the most, get any kind of help. The others haven't seen a blade in years. | |
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How to maintian local infrastrucutre?
