Why do they put them right where your wheels end up in the lane?
I live in Denver and they're not even flush, but recessed a few inches into the ground, literally like hitting a bigass pothole every half a block. That or you swerve for them like a madman.
I had to buy a secondary shitbox so i didn't feel like fucking killing myself every time I drove down the street, and it's developed some horrible suspension clunk after 10k miles. It's just absurd, couldn't they put the things in the middle of the lane or in the bike path or some shit
i know Denver roads are particularly shitty too, but like even on 2 lane roads that haven't been repaved since their conception, they put the fucking hole right in the path of either your right or left wheels
Jose Peterson
Where's the best Mexican food there? Denver is the place I learned to hate Subarufags.
Carson Torres
fuck if i know nigga, i get a steak burrito to-go from 3 Agaves every once in a while, it's like $9 but it goes nicely with a tallboy of pibber
Colton Davis
pittsburgh is like this too, driving on the roads here is absolutely miserable
no sense in buying a nice vehicle since it doesn't matter what you drive, your drive quality will be awful.
Aiden Smith
poor infrastructure planing and design same reason we still have overhead power lines that continue to get knocked out every year during storm seasons, instead of being buried underground where it would be safe from everything except amateur excavators
Cactus flower is decent, but that's out in Pueblo. (family out there)
Camden Perez
Also cost. Much cheaper immediately to run overhead lines than to bury them. Sure it might cost more in the long run, but that's the next guy's problem.
That's a manhole cover repair. Old, loose cover wears out and settles. So it makes a 'ban' when people drive over it.
But in my town, they screw with even the new ones. Following a road paving job, they cut all the (brand new) manhole covers out and install a seal/re-tamp the asphalt. Brand new road surface. I drive over it and think "Good jerb getting the manholes level." A few weeks later, they bring in the dig-up crew*, re-do the covers and now they are all "THUMP, THUMP".
REEEEEEEEE!!!!
*Probably a subcontractor that hires illegals.
Isaac Wilson
>a 'ban' a 'bang'
Caleb Johnson
>double posting to fix a spelling error >spaced, capitalized, and punctuated like a true transplant you could try to fit in or people are gonna call you out evertim
Robert Rivera
Oh fuck. Are you me?
Nolan Kelly
I dunno, do you hate Pueblo?
Adrian Reyes
Asphalt sinks, and sags.
Massive underground pipes, and drainage systems do not.
Justin Morris
Or you could just straddle/avoid them
Why is it Americans drive straight into obstacles that are obvious to everyone else in the world? You can have a 6 lane highway with barely any traffic and if you break down on it you are guaranteed to have some sheboon or truck driver slam into you for no reason
Henry Green
are you retarded? you europoors should know better than anyone
when you're driving down the road in Denver or any other major city you can't exactly swerve or "straddle" them because the lanes are narrow as fuck and you are "centimeters" from the car next to you
then there's homeless in the 12 inch wide bike lane
the manhole covers are below the level of the asphalt you fuck
pueblo confirmed fucking spic ridden shithole
Benjamin Wright
>you could try to fit in I shan't.
Isaac Carter
Yeah, Pueblo sucks. Beat to shit buildings filled with hicks that don't look much better. And the air kills me coming from the west coast.
Brayden Bennett
>Or you could just straddle/avoid them (ie, if out of bread, eat cake) Not any of the other posters, but I cannot shift my car over without scaring cars in other lanes which might make them have an accident. There isn't enough lane room.
Cooper Morales
>And the air kills me coming from the west coast. On the west coast, the air coming from across the pacific ocean is already smoggy due to China's pollution.
Caleb Morgan
Yeah, but at least it's damp.
Carson Richardson
Let me explain this. I work with a street department.
The manholes are below the road for snowblows mostly. The engineers and City thinks that your suspension isn't worth the price of snowplow repairs when they catch one of these babies going twenty+ mph. That's the same reason for meter covers on water, gas, phone access etc. Yes they could have them flush with the road. But that doesn't last long because the asphalt expands and contracts ( rising and lowering) while the covers don't. So boom goes the snowplow. Or pop goes your tire cause you have a manhole lid sticking two inches above the road
They're in the middle of the road because that's the only place the utilities will fit. You usually have sewer, water, storm drain, phone, fiber, gas, and power running down the streets. Every City is different and has different easements for utilities.
So deal with it bitch bois
Easton Harris
That makes sense
Parker Reed
I live in Denver too, and I absolutely hate that too! They are everywhere and unavoidable - so frustrating!!
Didn't / doesn't anyone building the road infrastructure think to run them through the center of the lane? Or, better yet, in the sidewalk the way they do in Europe?
>are you retarded? you europoors should know better than anyone
Not Europoor but I guess I should know better seeing as the manhole rises and detents are probably the most unobtrusive of our fucked up roads.
>when you're driving down the road in Denver or any other major city
I have never driven in Denver but I have driven in many major cities across the globe and most everyone everywhere except Americans tend to avoid potentially damaging obstacles in the roads no matter how thin their lanes are. If there is something that prevents you from avoiding it everyone slows down. Americans just crash through them.
>Swerve
No need to swerve if you were looking where you were going.
What kind of twilight zone do you live in?
Luis Hughes
Kek. You know they are there. You know what they look like. Yet you still hit them hard enough to bend a wheel.
Kevin Lopez
You think colorado is bad, our state is literally a giant cluster kernel fuck
>We are a bunch of stupid Americans who cannot figure out how to avoid a recessed manhole cover or to not crash into it at full speed.
We have manhole cover problems here too. And pothole problems and people driving in your lane straight at you problems but some how even the nigs don't bend a wheel on stationary obstructions.
You are supposed to be intelligent, so why don't you behave like it?
Sebastian Ward
This place called Chubby’s
Kayden Ramirez
Tamale Kitchen if you're poor or
Joshua Anderson
what's so fucking hard to understand, there's literally no room to go around them even in a midsize car, these things are 3ft across and placed right where your wheels ride in the lane
there's 10 of them every city block, you can't exactly slow down to 10mph for them in dense 45mph traffic
Adrian Cook
Have a (you). Pretty decent bait, however I'd only give it a 7/10. This post was too edgy for its own good.
Caleb Sanchez
It actually costs more to run in the ground. You need thicker cables etc.
Jose Wilson
That's what I meant. It costs more up front to run underground. I'd wager that the long term cost is less though, especially in lightning-prone areas or areas with lots of trees.
William White
>the manhole covers are below the level of the asphalt you fuck not when the ground around it sinks and the manhole and its supporting structure stays still.
Blake Flores
Probably to benefit the automotive repair jewish lobby, everything is connected, goy.
Jace Price
This. Low tax states just hire a bunch of Mexicans to build things and maintain the city. You should see how fucked up Arizona roads are, not just with maintainence (no lines on some roads, potholes, etc) but the actual planning is fucking retarded. There are major freeway interchanges that cut down to one lane and pull a sharp 180° turn. I've literally seen people dead on the side of the road getting worked by medics because of this shit. Meanwhile California has awesome roads, all the stoplights have sensors, and the freeways are easy to navigate (there are freeways here that run north/south but say east/west, yes it's THAT retarded).
Juan Evans
Well, they only care about being able to get to/from Mexico, so...
Nathan Rodriguez
Spent a year in MA. Can confirm that the roads are sheet.
>be country bumpkin >roads all fucked from farm traffic quarry traffic and flood damage
I love seeing shitty slickers come fuck up their cars cos they want a romp on country roads. Even better when they go off the road down a verge
Isaiah Turner
based stance fag land mines desu
Josiah Gomez
Live in Mississippi for two minutes and you'll know what true pain is. It's like nobody told the government about asphalt.
Bentley Taylor
>Be Wisconsin >Experience the same weather as Illinois >Don't even roll the roads >Still have better roadways
Dylan Ross
Tat explains low manhole covers. Now explain high ones. I think the latter are just shit installation.
Thomas Carter
>live in Ohio >complain about how shitty the roads are >go to Michigan for a day to visit the Henry Ford museum I’ll never complain about Ohio roads again
Ian Rogers
Park ave is like the only shitty road in Denver. It used to be oretty shit but those weed dollars got siphoned to roads instead if schools through loopholes. In 2014 their roads were really shit. The like 2015 roads would get repaved overnight it seemed.
Ryan Clark
Either park ave or broadway i know what road youre talking about though. Its in downtown, concrete and the manholes are like 2 inches below the surface.
Brody Adams
lol It's the opposite here in LA, they rarely resurface the roads (cause that would fuck up the already fucked up traffic), so the road sinks while the iron juts above. Great when you go over them in a low car.
Thomas Moore
bro it's literally every road in the metro area
I'm mostly down by DU so maybe it's worse there or something Evans is a fucking nightmare
Ian Adams
Atlanta's are worse. You guys don't know good you have it.
Dylan Brown
just drove to LA actually and noticed that, i was constantly thinking "how the fuck are there so many stancefags here with intact oil pans"
Owen Turner
Going to Aurora east of 25 yeah, but because you're going to Aurora. Southeast Denver is pretty much the ghetto now.
Parker Bell
>Or, better yet, in the sidewalk the way they do in Europe? Yuropean here, we put them in the road. On the position motorbikes are supposed to ride, including in corners. It's fucking lethal.
Alexander Richardson
That rarely ever happens. It's usually the other way around for whatever reason.
James Torres
That’s what you get for being a cancerous city fag
Mason Miller
Some people work
Kevin Peterson
I think it ends up being different heights because the manhole (a vertical concrete tube) and the road sink into the ground at different rates and while the road gets repaved its kinda hard to add more length to the tube.
Oliver Clark
stancefags btfo
Levi Sanders
Pretty much. Manholes will usually access sewer lines which can usually get deep. Most contractors just throw dirt back in the hole without proper compaction, and compacting dirt around a large man sized pipe sticking straight up and down isn't easy. So over time everything settles, including the asphalt.
