Fix bad roads, put off new ones
Fix bad roads, put off new ones
Two Sundays ago, we were driving to church on S.C. 544 and hit a pothole. A piece of equipment apparently also hit the same pothole and left part of a blade in the hole, which went into our tire. Fortunately the tires were fairly new and there was no cost involved.
We left town and traveled throughout Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. We did not come upon one pothole in all the little towns and interstates we traveled on, not one. Gas cost us between $1.44 and $1.49 a gallon.
On TV recently the discussion was about the substandard paving material that has been used in several Southern states being the cause of so many potholes. Maybe we should invest monies in the poor roads we have before we decide to build more roads paved with the same material.
Virginia Askew, Myrtle Beach
This story was originally published February 25, 2016 at 8:15 AM with the headline "Fix bad roads, put off new ones."