IMNSHO what it would take in most places (to deal with these potholes proactively) is a big fat law suit for someone breaking their leg, neck or blowing out their axle and killing a pedestrian. It could easily happen. I've seen many twisted ankles and pulled rocks out of a toddler's head who fell in one this weekend (stones embedded into the skull--the parents didn't have the $ for tourist doc in JD and brought her to visitors' day at the orphanage.) I was very disturbed that this kid had to wait to have rock extraction done. Fortunately she'll be fine but if those who witnessed it had just even poured iodine on it and patched it with a bandaid she'd have a major scar and probably an infection--which in that area can get especially nasty.
The thing with WAITING till "most" of the construction is done is that 10 years from now we will still be waiting and the roads will be worse. Has anyone looked at how much property there is still there to develop? There will ALWAYS be more construction. This is NOT acceptable...not for some place promoting itself as the next SoBe! Come on--do the right thing...pave now and then AGAIN after your trucks ruin the road for building the luxuriously priced luxury condos. This are classic free rider and negative externalities issues from university econ classes.
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