" You guys who live on dirt roads know how that works. "
Most people who live on gravel roads were not forced to move there. I moved into my present location in 1987 knowing I would be living on a gravel road. I wasn’t complaining about it and expecting some kind of road entitlement from government.
We the citizens of our road formed a Special Assessment District, ourselves, and in 1988 a private contractor was hired to pave the road. Since that time we have had the road resurfaced one time. We chose not to live on a gravel road, but chose not to move, complain, or blame.
The reason the road needed resurfacing is because the County plows snow and uses a too heavy truck that is loaded with sand gravel, wing plow, and is way over-weight for our road (even exceeding the County’s load limit for our class of road), but they have no concern for any damage done.
The plowing is usually not helpful. When it storms they don’t show up for a couple of days. If it snows an inch they are there promptly, plowing and wasting tax dollars, damaging the road, when they’re not needed. I hat to see/hear them coming. The local driver, seeing all the cleared pavement usually lifts his blade and rides down the road, turns around, and leaves. That’s a good thing.
We the people on our road use tractors and snow blowers and clear sections of the road ourselves, otherswise we would not be able to go to work if we had to wait for government. I am the last house on a Cul-De-Sac. I clear a large diameter circle so the school bus can turn around. The bus always arrives way ahead of the plows and people head out to work ahead of the plows, too.
To me, the entire situation is an illlustration of government taking tax dollars and what happens when people expect services or entitlements in return that cannot be delivered. Government is not the answer to most anything I need. It just gets in my way and costs me money and grief.
CSA