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This is easily the worst set of potholes in the New Haven. Run off from the hill crosses over the street, and constantly eats away the street. The problem is magnified in the winter time, when the run off freeze and creates an ice pot hole combo. The city put temporary patches to the holes, but they are eroded away in a single week! The city also put up marker cones as a warning, but its still not enough. There needs to be a permanent fix, like maybe an underground pipe to funnel the run off water under the road. You can easily see the carnage that these pot holes create. The guardrails are bent from constant crashes. The nearby trees are also scarred from being hit by cars that lost control from the holes. The damage from the run off water is so bad and so obvious that I nicknamed the area "Springside River". Its literally a river of water embedded into the street, that's how terrible it is.
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katib (Guest)
Therese (Registered User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Interesting article here, showing how letting roads deteriorate to this point actually ends up costing a lot more money in the long term:
The Hidden (& Massive) Costs of Letting Our Roads Deteriorate @Infrastructurst http://bit.ly/9rK9o9
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Therese (Registered User)
Chris Heitmann (Guest)
debbie (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
I am guessing these were partially addressed, since when I passed through here yesterday the potholes didn't seem all that bad. Can someone confirm?
The conditions vary along the length of Springside/Wintergreen so I could be referring to another location.
Darnell Goldson (Guest)
Dear Anonymous, I agree with you 100%, I have said at public meetings that there isn't any street worst than Springside. I've told the city that it is number 1 on my list, and apparently, since it is an election year, they have decided to patch it up about 2 weeks ago. I drove it yesterday, and the patches seem to be holding. I agree, and the city does also, that there needs to be a more permanent fix. As you said, drive down it any rainy day and it does have many runoffs from the mountain. If reelected, it will be one of my top priorities.
Darnell Goldson
Ward 30 Alderman
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
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