Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Who Pays for Street Repair? Who Benefits?


Last night’s city council meeting featured an agonizing discussion of the weight limits on trucks in town, the truck route, and how to keep trucks on it.
Ironically enough, after the meeting was over, I got on my bike, rode up town hill, and just as I arrived to the grade school corner a Jim Like cattle transport with a lime green cab, was in the process of turning.
To do so, the driver had to make the widest arc possible—if there had been any cars parked on the west side of Tyler St., it would not have been doable. He was obliged to use the whole street to make the turn, and still dragged the back wheels of the 18-wheeler over the curb & gutter repaired in early May.


At the time, I was wondered publicly who pays for this? Clearly, taxpayers of Cascade, and we don’t even have the use of the parking in some places because it must be left open for these turns. It seems Council needs to take the rights of the people who pay taxes 

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