Potholes and Infrastructure neglect, yet they spend obscene amounts on bike lanes and circles. (San Diego: how much, neighborhood)

[phinneas j. whoopee]

I was gonna make this a discussion about San Diegos long history of corruption and mismanagement, then I thought well this sorry state of ineptitude is relatively new. Im talking about the horrible conditions of our streets and other necessities. Every street seems to have constant huge car damaging potholes and they just half ass fix them. But thats not as important as putting up bike lanes that nobodys ever going to use. They cost millions of dollars a mile, but who the heck is commuting to hillcrest from mission valley? Why dont I see Todd Gloria huffing an old Schwinn tank bike with one speed up Texas street? Cmon buddy set an example.
How about traffic circles? A solution to a problem that never existed. The one in OB at WPL and Bacon had an initial funding of over half a million dollars. Rumor has it there were 10 wrecks the night it opened, so they put up the old stop signs for a few months and tinkered with it adding yield signs etc. In the last year theyve had to do numerous repairs to the fences that keep bicycles from riding through it which has likely doubled the cost.
Wait did you catch that- the roundabouts are NOT bicycle friendly, they have to dismount and try and avoid getting mowed down by cars.
How is that consistent with bicycle friendly plans?
Lake Hodges dam just got labelled as unsafe. Not like we need dams or water storage.
So what the heck is going on here? Everywhere you look the city is falling apart. You seen the bathrooms at Ski Beach or Dana Landing, or the OB lifeguard tower lately? Theyre falling apart. Most stalls are out of order.
What are they doing with the revenues?
They dont even put soap in said bathrooms any more. A couple of years ago they started putting this garbage foaming sanitizer in all over the beach areas. It doesnt do anything and all the dispensers are either out or broken constantly. How much could soap cost? Is anyone minding the store?

Any other examples to add? Im not even gonna blame the workers they usually look busy. Something needs to be done because this aint the finest city NO more

[Trekker99]

Roads are getting pretty bad here in areas - some of them feel like off roading in the Baja500.

Water leaks, street lights out - insanely long repair times.

I think budget and staff are busy elsewhere with 'progressive' climate action planning. The CAP budget analysis is/was presented this month to the City Council. Maybe our money is being redirected to help fund crazy projects while the city crumbles. Gotta meet the 2035 goals.

[Axxlrod]

I'm teaching one of my kids to drive as she recently got her permit, and I had to teach her to scan the road in front to look for pot holes and to dodge them. That's a new one.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Trekker99

Roads are getting pretty bad here in areas - some of them feel like off roading in the Baja500.

Water leaks, street lights out - insanely long repair times.

I think budget and staff are busy elsewhere with 'progressive' climate action planning. The CAP budget analysis is/was presented this month to the City Council. Maybe our money is being redirected to help fund crazy projects while the city crumbles. Gotta meet the 2035 goals.

I haven't touched my road bikes in a year. It's not worth wrecking them as they have carbon rims. I've been riding my E bike or Mt bike instead. You really need a truck if you are driving. Some of these potholes are as big as a kitchen sink.

[joosoon]

I'll add broken sidewalks and unmaintained trees, both of which are related, to the list.
The city historically spends more money paying out ridiculous settlements than they do fixing the actual problems. Worse yet, there's a catch-22 when it comes to property owners responsibilities for trees on city property which abut your own. You {technically} need permission to remove them even though they are yours to worry about, but it can take years to be allowed to do so. It took about nine years for me to get a ridiculously overgrown and dangerous liquidambar yanked through their process. And because of that, the other two near me magically disappeared one day --stump ground, roots gone no trace of their existence left.

[hitman619]

Even if The city redirected all of their resources into repairing Pot Holes, and infrastructure, Something else would just end up being neglected. Then we would just Pis an moan about what other stuff is being neglected.

[phinneas j. whoopee]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

I haven't touched my road bikes in a year. It's not worth wrecking them as they have carbon rims. I've been riding my E bike or Mt bike instead. You really need a truck if you are driving. Some of these potholes are as big as a kitchen sink.

Carbon rims hahaha. Im pretty old school my Klein Quantum Race Pro doesnt have a speck of carbon on it. Good thing Im not riding it right now the roads would destroy it.
My last MTB was titanium everything. Frame, bars, stem, seat post, rails, hubs, chainrings, bar ends, when I sold it I was about to buy a ti chain too.
Carbon is a fad.

But good point. Bicycle friendly agenda.

[phinneas j. whoopee]

Originally Posted by hitman619

Even if The city redirected all of their resources into repairing Pot Holes, and infrastructure, Something else would just end up being neglected. Then we would just Pis an moan about what other stuff is being neglected.

No we are pissing and moaning about the huge money spent on worthless projects no one wants. Who would complain if that were spent on necessary infrastructure?

[joosoon]

The pothole situation is going to be extraordinarily bad after and IF it ever stops raining. The quick-fix patches all around my neighborhood are washed out and there's a million little incipient cracks about to turn into bigger problems all over. There's a hill near me where a ton of water flows to a massive storm drain. The city chip sealed it a few years ago and it's already as beat up as it was prior to the work.

[Frac]

I'm shocked that my front left tire hasn't blown up yet. I've hit a couple of potholes at 40-50mph at night since they are harder to see.