Hit A Pothole? City Charm Will Fix It

Published 05/25/2023 · Updated 05/26/2023

The City of Ottawa is on a charm offensive.

No, not the idea to bill you $3 for every bag of garbage you go over the limit … despite the fact that you are already paying for garbage pickup in your property taxes.

No, not the free hundreds of millions of dollars in store for developers and sports venues that happen to operate in the private realm.

Or hundreds of millions of dollars on e-buses that weren’t properly tested. And light rail … you know …

Not at all, it’s about making your roads the best they can possibly be because that’s what people really care about. Count on every municipal candidate in any municipal election to say how flat and beautiful your roads will be and they will be outraged about the appalling conditions of the aforementioned thoroughfares. The horror.

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So the city showed off a new automatic pothole filler earlier this year that will use the cutting edge of technology. I don’t know about you, but I feel better already.

Now the city is ‘unveiling’ a somewhat new high-tech line-painter that will make road lines last easily three or four times longer. Wonder how long that is? Three or four weeks perchance? Maybe more?

Only problem is that the line-painter-plus was purchased last year and operated last year. So why are we discussing this now?

Because our city is on a road-charm offensive. Don’t let news a year late get in the way of that. And you can’t put on this mega-paint until the temperatures rise to some unknown heights that would make your nose bleed all over the nice new lines.

Of course, our roads are in a hideous condition. Light rail is unreliable and derailment-prone. And buses … where is my bus? Is there a bus at all?

Thank goodness for work-at-home or Ottawans wouldn’t get anything done because … well … how do you get to your job in good time or at all?

So just remember that, when that car coming the other way swerves in front of you because the driver can’t see the lines or your fillings fall out after your car lands in a Grand Canyon-like pothole, the City of Ottawa is not filling potholes and drawing lines with the best technology possible.

You’ll sleep better knowing that.

Ken Gray

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Frank Zarboni says:
05/27/2023 at 9:21 AM
I live in Orleans and hit a pothole on January 1 this year. Told by the city that there wasn’t a request to fix it beforehand. Cost 2 new snow tires and rims. Really fed up with road work. Now they are fixing some of the main roads in area, but not roads connecting to them. Unbelievable
Ken Gray says:
05/27/2023 at 12:13 PM
Frank:
Thank you for this.
The city seems to put more emphasis on toys rather than the basics.
Unfortunately, they get the toys wrong which is expensive and the basics suffer.
It would be nice to have a candidate who says he or she will fix the roads and rather than talk about it, they actually do it.
And when they get the basics right, maybe then they could move on to a small number of toys.
cheers
kgray