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She just meant the roads around her house.
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Whitmer ran on "Fix the damn roads".
She just meant the roads around her house.
I worked for PennDOT one summer when I was in college. The crew/garage I worked with was the drainage/culvert crew.
Almost all the roads we worked on were where some local politicians lived, or the penndot district manager,
Also for about a 3-4 weeks, three of us college kids and one full time guy had to cut the weeds on the bank along the highway where the road garage was. We got old dull double bar weed cutters. But the best part was the full time penndot worker was using a weedeater - with no string.
The foreman /supervisor for that gagrage was an old alcoholic guy who shook so bad every monring and was barely functional.
One day i was sent to work with the guide rail crew at another nearby gararge, maybe they were to fix potholes that day. Ordinarily the guide rail work was not bad, Like setting up a big erector set for thise of you old enough to remember those toys, They maybe did one or two potholes, and of course they found some sort of out of site pull off to sleep for a couple hours before going back to the garage,
No urgency or forward thinking. Bad intersection thats over grown - meh. Lets wait for a very bad accident with fatalities before we go trim the brush back so drivers could see down the road when pulling out.
I had a sleazy feeling after working for them that summer. I had zero desire to go back the next summer.
Everything that people joked about that agency was completely true. They even joked about sleeping on snow plow OT instead of plowing.
It should be abolished and contracted out every 3-5 years, with ability to terminate for poor performance