[Summit] Sidewalk Repairs

[Sturn. Erich]

While I feel a case could be made that averages are misleading, I do not agree this is one of them. There is no acceptable reason why Rhode Island spends SO much money per mile of roadway and gets roads so terrible you practically need the Mars Rover to travel on them. We should be striving to do better.


Main page with various transportation related studies/reports: http://reason.org/areas/all/315.html

The actual report, it's fairly lengthy but worth reading: http://reason.org/files/highway/18th_annual_highway_report.pdf

Hope that helps.


From: Coryndon Luxmoore [mailto:coryndon at luxmoore.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:02 PM
To: Sturn. Erich
Cc: 'Art Norwalk'; Summit Neighborhood
Subject: Re: [Summit] Sidewalk Repairs

Eric,
There is no data point more misleading than an average.

Please provide the reference so I can take a look at the numbers. --C


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On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Sturn. Erich wrote:


The most recent study I saw had Rhode Island roads costing tax payers $436,000 roughly per mile of existing roadway, and the national average is roughly $134,000. Where's all that extra money going to? It certainly isn't buying anything worthwhile, our roads are some of the worst in the nation.

Food for thought.

-----Original Message-----
From: summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us [mailto:summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us] On Behalf Of Art Norwalk
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:33 AM
To: Summit Neighborhood
Subject: Re: [Summit] Sidewalk Repairs

This is news to me. I thought the big tunnel project was INSTEAD of
separating storm and sanitary sewers. What did I miss?

At 11:27 AM 8/18/2010, you wrote:

City is not spending a lot on streets in our enighborhood because
all the streets will be ripped up to separate sewers over the next
few years.  Greg gerritt former stakeholder  Combined Sewage
Overflow  project.

-- Art Norwalk


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