Schwab Era Road Repair Flaws Revieled After Rain

Many email reports of pot holes and broken or cracked streets are coming in after the first heavy rain.

The Schwab Administration's practice of top dressing the roads with asphalt slurry has shown to be like many other of his actions a cover up of bad road surfaces beneath an attractive surface. Repeatedly citizens have requested real road repair and the City Council has approved Schwab Staff requests for the cheaper and less effective top dressing. Frequently he indicated that it made the roads look good to keep house prices up. This is one of the reasons that the roads by Royal Barton and Grand Terrace Mobile Home Parks were not even resurfaced. Those homes did not even get the dressing up of their roads.

Some of that surface treatment has been washed down stream, leaving behind exposed cracked roads and in some cases chunks of rock and asphalt in the street to welcome even more damage in the next rain.

In some cases the years of build up are flaking away in scale like chunks. However, on some roads that got repeated redressing the surface of the road is above the design function of curbs and drains.

When the city has an RDA 40 percent of our tax funds go to pay the debt of that folly of RDA Real Estate Speculation and Projects. The limited funds the city has should go for real city functions such as roads, police services.

When you drive around town be careful of broken pavement and rocks in the roads. Avoid hitting potholes because each time they are hit they get worse and you may do damage to your car.

Be careful out there citizens. Report road damage and cracks to GT City Hall. Also report anything that may look like a potential sink hole or road drop. We should expect more rain and more damage as the water works its way under the exposed cracks left behind by the Schwab/Berry Administration.

Increase the RDA Debt and you effectively reduce the amount of funds available for road repair and the things the City should be doing.

Grand Terrace needs Real Road Repair not Top Dressing just to look good for the Realtor's Benefit.