4/8/09 To Work

When you ride bicycles, you spend a lot of time staring intently at streets.  Streets that look pristine from a car can look like a Swiss cheese moonscape when you're trying to navigate through them and not pop a tire or get beaten to death.  Actually, there are very few streets that are really smooth and not full of holes.  Even when they re-pave a street, someone else comes along and digs a hole in it almost immediately.  And when they patch the hole, the patch never lasts very well.  They should make street repair engineers¹ ride around on bicycles.  Then they'd have more appreciation for their work.



¹I mean the people who come up with the guidelines for how to repair streets, not the ones that do the actual work.