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Originally Posted by ScreamShatter
^ Don’t get me started on majority of streets in Philly. There are so many other street paving priorities they should be tackling before allies, IMO
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The city has actually dramatically increased street paving (pre-pandemic funding issues) over the last 5 or so years and I think it shows in large parts of greater Center City - they have data that backs that up too.
The Issue to me always seems to be the lack of coordination between various city entities. Streets will come in and pave a road, then 3 months later Water Dep’t will come in and tear a huge trench in the street to update water pipes. And once the cut is made in the new macadam the roads get pretty rapidly degraded - especially if it’s a rough winter.
On my block they repaved, restriped bike lanes and crosswalks - looked beautiful. Then Water came in and regraded all access points to the storm sewers at each corner - cutting up the asphalt and ruining all of the crosswalk painting. Obviously it doesn’t seem that hard to coordinate these things better but that seems to be what you get with our city gov.
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