bbor-imported

His name is Mauricio Barbon. He is the head of the public works department for Toronto.

I dont have his email

white92d15b7

how bout the on ramp to the 401 from southbound 404 almost wiped her out there road is 20 K max speed holy

imported_EH_94_Civic

well if it has to do with the highway wouldnt u have to contact some one at queens park not city hall?

imported_gatherer

I dunno

good question.... anyone?

Nova_Dust

Forget it, just do what I do, remember where the holes are...

EL_Sport

If its the 400 series highways, then yes it would be the province (MTO) that you would contact, if its city highways (ie. DVP, Gardiner, etc), then you would contact the city.

I called the MTO once about a large crack/pothole on a 401 onramp. It did eventually get fixed, but that was 2 weeks after I called.

SpikeyLee

Looks like the folks in the government are doing some listening about the pot holes!!

Last night I got tied up in a traffic jam going West on the 401 in the Express lanes between the 404/DVP and Yonge because they decided to shut down the 2 right lanes to fill in pot holes!!!

NoSpleeny

If you guys consider it...
fixing pot holes is not benificial to the government.

THe government saves money by not fixing pot holes... and as a result.. your cars wear down faster. This allows the government to generate more revenue by having car parts and services being purchased and therefore GST and PST are the aftermath they receive. So it's a win-win situation for them not fixing the roads.

imported_94EG6HB

I saw the same thing at 401 / 400 westbound today as well..

shlammed

I bet they would think twice about that if half the drivers in the GTA knew that any damage to their cars caused by a *MAINTAINED* (which almost all are) is a liability to them. I know quite a few people that had repairs paid by the government.

shlammed

P.S. that's also why sometimes you will come onto a side street that has a sign that says "Warning, Un-maintained road, use at your own risk!"

NoSpleeny

You know what I figure also...

It's a lose-lose situation for drivers..

If we have the government not giving two ****s fixing the roads... We damage our cars by driving over HUGE pot holes and screwing up our suspension, tires, wheels, alignment... blah blah blah... That costs us $$$!

But reverse the situation, what if the government fixed the road...? They would continually block off 2 of 3 OR 3 of 4 lanes for 12 months of the year and cause HUGE traffic jams.. you'd be wasting countless HOURS sitting in traffic jam... this wastes your time and gas.. which also costs $$$!

For us it's a lose-lose situation.

COnsider 427 Southbound today.... it was solid from Dundas to Queensway because they blocked off 2 of 3 lanes..... I don't know if they fixed the road there but it's not that bad condition there... and I won't say if they repaired it yet because I haven't driven past there.

BUT on countless occasions coming back home from work... I pass by the 401 Express Westbound area around Yonge St... they block off 2 of the 5 lanes in the express (right lanes) and you know what... they've done it so many times! I see them do it in summer.. I See them do it in fall and winter! Each time I drive by there, the same old **** quality roads are there.. they don't repair ****. These ****in' workers spend countless number of my tax dollars driving up and down the 401 laying out their cones blocking off two lanes of traffic and not even fixing it! (and if you drive the 401 area around Yonge (as per described above).. that area is in serious need of work.

The (left to right) 1st lane has a HUGE depression and is littered as **** with pot holes.
The 2nd lane has fewer pot holes but has an even larger dip than the left lane!
The 3rd lane has no dip but the road is rippled and it feels like you're going over thousands of miniture speedbumps.
The 4th lane has a small depression but is littered with pot holes on the left side but has mini-speed bumps on the right side.
The 5th lane has the stupid concrete wall like 1 inch from the road... and has a billion pot holes in it.. no bumps just huge pot holes that make the grand canyon look like a dent. Furthermore, driving in this lane makes staying in the express difficult because you have to merge to one of the 4 other **** box lanes before it goes to the collectors.

Bah. Rant over. We lose both ways.

SECOND2NONE

broke my front kit and flatened my 5zigen rear section on the way to hamilton on the 401....was not happy that was in summer

imported_Torrey

Oh I know that stretch oooo soo well!

My suspension is literally dead, and I love hopping across those bumps!!

shlammed

upper wellington is a bitch too...

T-Shirt Ninja

Pulse24 Is doing a story on the potholes in toronto check out their website and put down the places you think the potholes are the worst. Personally I don't drive the 401 often enough to know the potholes there, but the ones on front street between yonge and church are pretty friggin bad, theres isnt 1m of road thats flat there lol.

imported_gatherer

nospleeny .. those lanes on the 401 over yonge are blocked off so they can re do the bridge that takes time... as for the rest of the roads... resurfacing them can only be done when the temperature is high enough. I remember the winter they called in the army the 401 was so bad near the DVP that they ripped the surface completely and left it as concrete for the remainder of the winter... the surface was put down when the spring hit and conditions were right .... and there was little traffic back up because they did it at night...

we had a conservative government then... life was good... but now the whole flock had to vote liberal... I bet if Eves was still in power the road surface would have been torn up and left till spring...

now with the liberal government suddenly there is no money ....

NoSpleeny

Boooo!

Liberials in Ontario lied too much

imported_gatherer

hehehehehehe... I voted Green.... I wonder how they'd deal with the pot holes.....