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Fuck Flock.

But the cost of road repairs are orders of magnitude more expensive.

My small town entered a contract for 11 flock cameras, and it cost about 65 grand. We also repaved 10 small streets and it cost 8 million.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Honestly fuck roads too. We are way too car dependent.

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thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Maybe look closer into each job, see where the money is going?

I’d also gladly pay for more maintained roads than a surveillance system. If everyone just did their job, we’d already be in a greater situation.

Cops getting caught stalking their exes on flock ststems, trying to track down a guy who picked up $30 he found on the ground? Cmon, let’s be real. There are serious issues, but it’s always low hanging fruit they go for rather than the jobs that pay the bills, like taxing million/billionaires. Thanks Reagan, you ass hole.

Fix tax loopholes, institute a wealth tax ( no billionaire got where they are without exploiting people), help people, invest in education, NOT the military, who couldn’t even find a way to help a ship they stuck at sea for almost a year. We have literal criminals running our government.

I’d rather raise al Capone from the dead and let him have a go, he at least fed the poor with soup kitchens. We’re arguing over whether a child should have free lunch like it’s the crime of the century. It’s unfuckingbelievable the petty shit we have to rule on.

NO child should ever go hungry, I don’t give a fuck if his or her parents murdered 100 people.

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beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That sounds like corruption. A guy with a shovel doesn’t cost that much.

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You don’t fix a road with a dude and a shovel. The horror you’re seeing there is exactly what happens to a road when you just keep shoveling gravel and cold mix when you need to do at least a mill and overlay, but probably a full-depth repair.
  
  And when you start doing stuff like that now you’ve got to start planning around the underground utilities. Beneath the road you may have water, sewer, gas, electricity, telecoms and more. You’ve got manholes, handholes, storm sewer. And on top of that, half the owners on either side of the road don’t know where their property line is and they’ve installed irrigation systems in the ROW without a permit and the contractors hit water lines they don’t know about every hundred feet, stopping work and costing more money.
  
  And all of this has to be coordinated with the various utility providers to try and make sure yout plans and theirs align. You don’t want to spend millions fixing a road only to have the gas company come in a week later cutting a bunch of trenches and holes they just fill back with a patch, causing the road to fall apart in 2 years instead of 20.
  
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  - beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hey man your not think pragmatically, the roads don’t get repaired every 2 years and to think you can just do that isn’t an argument. People have proved good enough is sometimes the right way. All those regulations you just rattled off are a moot point because that’s how we got here. But man with shovel covers all that. Somethings aren’t that complicated and just because you say so doesn’t mean it’s reality.
    
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