Dallas Streets Keep Getting Worse and Worse

So divert all funding of the arts to street repair.

I think we also need to see a chart showing what percentage of bond projects in the last 30 years have actually been completed (or are in progress) as promised to the voters. Don't we have some projects that were funded but never started, as well as some where the goals magically changed after the taxpayers approved? Not to mention, probably some where money got diverted.

with the County Govt so bad, taxes so high on property, school systems in disarray, and racial tensions out of sight.....the MONEY is moving OUT of the CITY....and urban dwellers will not TAKE UP THE SLACK in tax collection nor service purchasing.   DOOM.  not quite Detroit, nor Houston, nor Cleveland....but too black for reforming and fixing now.

Yep - world class city.

Honestly.  I feel sorry for both Dallas County and The City of Dallas.  Why?  Money is short. 

At least federal income taxes are lower than since, like, around 1950.  Pothole-riddled roads, Dallas young urban professionals driving like King Lears and Catherine the Greats in your brand-spanky-spank new Beemers and Mercedes (German made, but with a Spanish name for "The Virgin Mary"), are "the other half of luxury" 

While you, young money equals freedom jokers and clowns, are wrapped in about a ton-and-a-half of steel to protect you, those potholes are big killjoys, aren't they?  Yeah, sure.  Let's drive the Mercedes convertable 80 mph in a school zone because we can.  Oops! 

POTHOLE!

Down at Pep Boys, you haul-in the Mercedes to get the suspension fixed, and while 2/3 of the eight billion people in the world are living on two dollars or less a day ("Beans and Rice and Jesus Christ!") the wrecked suspension or cracked bendix or scraped ball bearings--no problem, goblin!  Only $750 so young urban professional can push the pedal to the metal to get to the speed-dating bar. 

Gets drunk at speed-dating bar and ends up going home with some Middle Eastern dude. Kismet! 

I ride the bus.  The bus saves energy and helps keep those potholes from taking over the freaking government.  Texas used to have the most effective (did I say efficient?  What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness anyway?) interstate highway system in America: Now it is a concrete basketball game with large SUVs. 

No one can tell me the United States is not being fattened up for the kill. 

When are you going to wake up and get off the luxury channel? 

The management by crisis is getting really old followed by the "we need hundreds of millions for this!" mantra from every damn council briefing. 

But soon, we'll be able to eat the KIAs found on Stemmons service roads.

Meanwhile on Mockingbird Lane near White Rock Lake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBfR7GT5zE

yes but keep being snarky about the horrible suburbs.  My roads are just fine

But we really NEED another Calatrava bridge and toll road before such minor issues as actually getting to them safely.

It's fashionable to bitch about the streets, but good lord, they have gotten just ridiculous lately. Recently, streets that have been dug up and then "repaved" are just pathetic. Gaston, east of Abrams is one that comes to mind.

Mercedes at Pep Boys? My God, poverty really IS the default condition of mankind!

And it's Mexico, not America, with the world-class weight gain problem, even though were stealing all their corn to fuel our Mercedes and Bimmers.

Which, regardless of the ability, rarely if ever hit 80 in a school zone. Kids with overloaded backpacks can be a lot harder on finely-tuned suspensions than a simple pothole, even the medicinal ones - according to the luxury channel.

BTW, those overloaded buses are what cause the potholes.

@holmantx  

This 

Use revenues to pay for repairs.  An idea so crazy, it just might work!

It's just an example of a World-Class pothole, the ones you cite would likely humor the Euros as much as your primitive voting ID procedures and silly poseur bridge.

Now you know why d'bags lease those bimmers.

@curmudgeon  Over a year ago, I predicted a torrent of bad news about the true state of the City shortly after Suhm stepped down.  I have a feeling it is going to get much worse.

True.

KIA is such a a properly-named vehicle.

@Jim253  That's because the only people who drive there are the sad sacks who actually live there and pay taxes, so the amount of funding for maintenance is well-matched to the need. The city of Dallas, OTOH, has tons of freeloaders coming in every day from Plano in their Tahoes and F-150s and causing wear and tear on the roads but not paying a dime in taxes toward maintenance.

@Jim253  I'd rather have pot holes than have my soul crushed

@G_David  Drive Haskell south of Gaston, then try to convince yourself that it was totally re-paved just a few months ago. Somebody's brother-in-law made a killing on that contract

@G_David Mockingbird. Just plain old mockingbird, and HP is not even immune to the crap that Mockingbird is, although West of Toll and East of 75 is worse.

@observist and we're bidding on the Olympics!

@observist  And the renovated convention center.... we really needed that, as well.  It makes me feel a lot better every time I have to get my front end aligned to know that, at the very least, our convention center got a makeover--- because we needed to be world class.

@Montemalone @gordonhilgers--That's true, man, but really: I was talking about the shocking decline in road and highway quality since 1980, the year King Ronald Wilson Reagan ascended to the throne.  While conservatives, especially the Great Speckled Know-Nothing, indigenous to the uber-ignorant and uber-contemptous South, whine like dogs about taxation (federal income taxes are now at the lowest level since the 1950s), they tend to ignore the pressure less tax revenue going to the federal government tends to create a "kick the can down the road" in which states are left holding the responsibility.  Then, when we have Scary Rick Perry wanting to brag he balanced the budget by practically wrecking the social safety net (while rewarding his paying campaign constituency: crony capitalism at its most blatant) the roads get placed on "the back burner".  Then, when counties and cities, the last houses on the block in terms of funding absolutely necessary governmental services such as road repair, the money is so low that many possibilities that indeed would make life happier for all of us that cities and counties have two options: raise property taxes through the roof, chase the poor people out of the inner city, and then the other option of just ignore the potholes and hope they go away. 

YOUR tax cuts at work.  An automobile has a "relationship" with its road.  When the rubber meets the road, the undercarriage suffers and wifey-wife feels as if her eggs are being shaken-up to the point she wants to just get out of the car altogether.  

In terms of public services, you get what you pay for.  Welcome to McDonald's. 

@Montemalone

Especially when loaded with fatties, maybe they should be made to walk.

@ruddski If you knew one damned thing about why Native Americans, particularly those in the Southwestern United States, are "fatties", you would know that, for indigenous peoples, many of whom had retained status as wandering hunter-gatherers quite successfully for 40,000 years, the grease-laden Mexican food, the pointed lack of fruits, berries and seeds and nuts in their diets--all of that adds up to serious weight problems that do cause so-called "Mexicans" towards seriously overweight problems that indeed lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis and numerous illnesses.  Like alcohol.  Alcohol has devastated Native America all over the Western Hemisphere. 

My ancestors, on my dad's side, probably lived on potatoes for thousands of years. 

I love fake meat and tater tots. 

When I left Arlington, it had several miles of moon-quality roads.

@bushwood.smithie @G_David  I actually just drove from N.W. Highway on Lemmon/Haskell all the way to Main Street, which is my daily commute home. Believe it or not, it's actually worse between 75 and Gaston. The short stretch of Beacon between Live Oak and Gaston was torn up for utility work several months ago. When they were done, it was instantly the worst stretch of road in the city. It's like they're not even trying.

@whocareswhatithink @G_David Mockingbird within HP looks pretty damn sweet to me.

McDonalds keeps a close eye on theft, graft and other necessities that are part and parcel of government. But, they can't force fatties to eat more salads. Government can, and will, since fatties of all stripes cost the collective, just like smoking and insurance policies deemed substandard.

I bet he can live on less than two bucks a day.

@gordon

Just relaying info from the UN, amigo. Since I'm not Mexican, only 1/64 Cherokee, in perfect health, and have absolutely no control over the diets of others (that's the governments job),I really don't care *why* bus-riding Mexicans or Native Americans are destroying Dallas roadways, and I don't care since I avoid Texas, but I sure as hell ain't blaming Mecedes.

Especially not those sweet AMG's.

Lamar between Collins and 360 is like spring skiing on upper hades.

@WylieH @G_David@bushwood.smithieThere might even be rewards for failure - privatize street maintenance and make some money off of it or at least make a political donor very happy.

@G_David @bushwood.smithie  That's because they're not trying... City staff could care less.  There are zero consequences for failure to perform.