The Latest Round of Re-surfacing

neanderthalsis said :

Jere13 said :

I know I bang on about this a lot, but it does’t make sense.

It is a cheap and easy fix, albeit a short term one that requires higher ongoing expense than if they did a proper HMAC job the first time. I think the real problem lies in how TAMS is budgeted. They have a handful of dollars allocated annually by our political overlords to stretch out across all Canberra roads and they are chastised into keep expense to a minimum.

there is no forward thinking, just a plan to eek out the current dollars and maybe hope for a pat on the head (or maybe a PS Gong) if they can get to the need of the year and have some money to put back into general revenue. This generally happens when you put professional bureaucrats in charge of maintenance units instead of people who know what they are doing.

Erggh, so many typos. I will start penance now.

Jere13 said :

I know I bang on about this a lot, but it does’t make sense.

It is a cheap and easy fix, albeit a short term one that requires higher ongoing expense than if they did a proper HMAC job the first time. I think the real problem lies in how TAMS is budgeted. They have a handful of dollars allocated annually by our political overlords to stretch out across all Canberra roads and they are chastised into keep expense to a minimum.

there is no forward thinking, just a plan to eek out the current dollars and maybe hope for a pat on the head (or maybe a PS Gong) if they can get to the need of the year and have some money to put back into general revenue. This generally happens when you put professional bureaucrats in charge of maintenance units instead of people who know what they are doing.

I know I bang on about this a lot, but it does’t make sense. Aside from being dangerous, noisy and rough just the visual impact these roads have is apalling. The roads in Phillip look discraceful. Roads that would not look out of place in a third world nation.

I saw that sign in Mawson and it might as well have said “stone chips coming to all cars in Mawson”.

Will be avoiding the Mawson shops for a good few months then and shopping at Farrer. I really hope that the shops in Mawson complain about this.

magiccar9 said :

Let me be the first to correct my spelling of Mawson on the second dot point. Apologies.

Identical thinking, I too was wondering why these were selected?
Although, Melrose drive was done last week- they did spray tar, I assume, black lines all over the road. This was it.
Makes me wonder if TAMS have a barrel with tickets that have street name printed on them, “lucky draw”, no matter if the street surface is good. Nitwits.

Let me be the first to correct my spelling of Mawson on the second dot point. Apologies.