The Politics of Potholes | WheelHouse
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Potholes are a scourge on America’s roads. We know how they happen and how to repair them, so why don’t we? Join Nolan Sykes as he explores the economics and politics behind America’s pothole problem.
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🎵 Watch out for the pothole, Watch out for the pothole 🎵
Donut Media oh noooo. Your tire is all flat and junk... let me get out my cellular, oh wait I'm a pothole, I don't have a cellular.
Snakes in the grass but I walk ,Got sum new boots on the back it says golf, so I be prepared for they bites they all talk,I left the condom in the grass so fuck off😤
Ahhh yes Tyler the creator
Now why can’t I see all the other comments on this video
GEORGE GEORGE GEORGE OF THE ROAD
Please do Mustang Models!! Cobra, svt, mach1, ect..... !!!! Way over due!!
When they fix a pot hole in my area....it turns into a mini speed bump, like way to go you fixed a problem with another problem
They do it so that the cars and trucks compress it over time, making the repair more long-term.
@@visualdarkness , that's only when a crew digs into the roadbed. Try riding a bicycle, not only are those like steps but once traffic compacts them there is a dip both into the patch and the dip at the other end becomes a step up.
At least they fixed it. In my country, the road has more cracks than my ass but no body cares whatsoever.
@@OskaIvanovichSmirnov doesn't sound like much.
Here outside my house in the uk a main road been repaired over 30 times over the years and all they fix the potholes with is gravel so it turns into a pothole after 2 weeks again
The last time the gas tax was raised was the last time Pumphrey saw his dad
hey man, the truth can hurt ya know
#TheSavageryWasReal #Damn #IFeltThat
Thats a sore issue but Pumphrey jokes about it himself. I know that doesnt mean we can but if its not malicous why not its the internet. Not like he called the guy a bastard.
LmAo
But would you rather have a little tax of more than $0.25 every time you fill up gas or would you rather have a totaled car so you have to buy a brand new car with the crappy insurance that America has and then you have to get car insurance for that car you have taxes on that car that adds up to a lot I rather pay a tax for better roads and even your life
Just use flex seal
Sgt Jack Halifax idk that seems like a lot damage tho
That's a lotta damage.
Not a bad idea theoretically, just fill in the holes and the rubber can expand and contract with the hole.
Wood filler
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America: We have most potholes.
Belgium: Try coming here, bro...
Meanwhile,
INDIA: hold my chai...
Was about to comment that 😂😂
😂
Meanwhile in Russia
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belgium doesnt have more potholes than america tho
Canada: Bet you won't come here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Where I live the government tends to repair the same stretch of perfectly fine road every year while ignoring nearby roads that are in atrocious condition.
In particular the main street of the city is in terrible condition and is just getting worse, its not some back road, its the main street of a city of 300,000.
You saw why. Reoairing the worst roads cost exponentally more than a decent one.
same
I live in St. Louis, where they recently redid Chippewa and I-44 for no fucking reason at all while Jamieson and Martin Luther King remain absolutely dreadful
I can’t remember the last time I saw a “filled” pothole that stayed fixed past one rainstorm..
I can
Because our roads were meant to be maintained at strict intervals. They neglected it because our government is trash. Now we are busy trying to patch holes rather than fix them. So now we are playing catch up but we're never gonna catch up
Uriah Siner that's the idea
Blayne see also: our minimum wage, and just about every other government program and policy that requires updates and ongoing attention
TheDude4077 true
As an employee of a road construction company I can tell you the problem is that the sub grade isn't being properly made and the pavement above it is not thick enough in addition to that the companies all want to employ 5 supervisors to every 1 laborer. State inspectors see the defects as the roads are being built and they don't give a shit and don't say anything, I guess they can't be bothered with the paperwork.
mgrande11 In Illinois, I see road construction workers sitting on their asses all fucking day. When they finally DO finish the job, 5 years have already passed.
At my job we have a saying. Good enough for government work.
I live just off a secondary road and its been replaced 3 times in ten years. Each time they neglect the subsurface and then lay down less than 2 inches of ashpalt and the plows rip it up over winters. After three years of salt and plow blades it needs resurfacing. Can't imagine how much money they'd save if they had just redone it correctly.
Eddie Hardt
Same in the UK. Miles upon miles of very disruptive lane upheaval and very little work.
I see you also use the M5 lol
"Complete by October 2018" yeah right. They'd only done one bloody side by then!
In my country to draw attention to pot holes people basically planted tress in them it's pretty funny cuz they got fixed right away
Watzetzface no he means they pulled it out the ground and filled the pothole with dirt and planted it. It’s actually a smart protest to send a message and as he said they got fixed fast. The government will keep getting away with putting the blinders to ignore real issues so we send subtle protests and it worked
Thing is tree roots will just destroy the area more...
@@Shazzkid they weren't given time to root. They were removed and the pothole fixed right away.
Start planting hemp in the holes, it will make the news and put pressure on the goverment xD
If all of the money of the current tax wasn't going into corrupt people's pocket, the roads would be fine.
Well, no. There simply is not enough coming in to cover it all. It's called basic math.
harshbarj yet, the military gets over 500 billion dollars a year while roads only need 200 million. there’s enough, trust me.
Remy 200 billion
Okay Claude
Yup
Politicians love building new infrastructure because it makes them look great, repairing infrastructure is sadly not as sexy...
1:13 coincidentally Belgium's roads are also shit. Greetings from the Netherlands
i agree, greetings from belgium.
French road become worst and worst every day. I think after winter; our roads will become like German or Belgium roads...
My mother has actually broken her rims and 3 tires cause of route condition...
greetings from France.
Come to italy and try ours
Yes here in Belgium we have terrible roads hahaha
come to Bulgaria pls, you are gonna love your roads
You aren't going to convince me that extra taxes will go to upkeeping the roads. I live in Illinois and the "extra" tax we pay means that our roads are way worse than the next state over even though they don't have an extra tax.
For real, I live in Kentucky and the second you cross the bridge to Illinois the roads turn to absolute shit
When I need to certify my car it's safe on the road, why the roads don't need any certifications they're safe for drive?
This would end up working for the worst there would be too much bureaucracy involved some pen pusher coming to 'inspect' the road whilst taking tons of taxpayer money and then if the road would be deemed ' unsuitable ' I can imagine them closing off the whole road until whenever the workers arrive to fix it could be months.
We should just stop certifying cars...
Road inspections are a thing
If Dominos could do it, why can't the Government?
Exactly
What did dominos do?
@@JaredConnell are you really this dense? Just Google it moron
@@JSM00n What am I supposed to google?
@@JaredConnell "dominos fixes potholes" why are people so dense 😐
In India we have many more potholes! We have reverse speedbreakers which go underground :D !
Enrique F ok pajeet..
Reverse speed bumps? Sounds 100% like a wheel removal system
@@ThomasFarquhar2 totally
@@himeshreshamiya7830 we love to test our suspension system😂
How much income tax do you pay? Probably none so stop complaining
Do one on car speakers and what car had them first, and how they have evolved
Yeah
6:50
Holy shit that's an AMAZING idea.
Few forces are more powerful than super protective parents yelling THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Ryukachoo Helen Lovejoys unite! Only problen is they'd ask for speed humps every 20'.
Make a RUF up to speed pleaseee
As much as i love the yellow bird. I don't think it's big enough of a car to get an "up to speed". Maybe RWB if we're lucky cause they already did the 911
Ooooo pls
Yes. But i just said i love the yellow bird
Absolutely. RUF deserves the spotlight for a week. Amazing work.
Ed bolian
People: My area has the most potholes
Fayette County, Pennsylvania; the area where I grew up: Hold my bent axel
Literally no one doesn't say that. I actually rarely see people saying the roads where they live are good, unless they're Dutch or Japanese. The roads where I live, St. Louis, are actually in pretty good condition for the most part. Some roads here are infamous for their potholes, like River Des Peres, Hall Street, Jamieson, Martin Luther King Jr, and oh dear god Bayless motherfucking Avenue. But others like Jefferson, Skinker, Kingshighway, Big Bend and Lindbergh have lasted so long without needing a repave that there are depressions in the road at every traffic light
"I'm driving here I sit,
Cursing my government
For not using my taxes
To fill holes with more cement"
lmao ikr
Tyler's a genius bruh
I love TOP
Your commentary, while having good points, is only 1 dimension of the problem. Simply tossing money at a problem doesn't always fix it. The asphalt industry loves the cash cow of city/state contracts. Guaranteed a lab analysis of the asphalt on average would have issues with purity. Chemical fillers are added to cushion profits. Concrete roads are "too expensive" it is said and so asphalt is the preferred material, but the politicians are short-sighted and don't realize they're being conned at the taxpayer's expense. Concrete companies vastly outnumber asphalt companies, which makes a bidding process much more competitive and potentially cheaper, but the sad truth is many politicians are grossly incompetent and have no negotiation strategy. The average city council is full of people with a nice smile, but lack the ability to get the job done. Don't believe me? Go to meetings/events with elected persons and pay attention to what they say beyond the normal cute small talk. Additionally, politicians can conveniently defer to talking about infrastructure issues like potholes as a diversion tactic at opportune moments. It happens all the time. Many of the problems we face in society aren't always because of a lack of technological progress, or because of financial burdens.
@@MrFlynryan that's cause you live in Canada.
Capitalism
Asphalt has good grip
We had that problem in my city for years, still do. The roads here are/were AWFUL, and they were all asphalt. Finally they're redoing a ton of streets, and they're even putting in concrete streets that will actually last instead of just falling apart again after a year.
Having a driveway paved, the company doing the job would only use certain suppliers because most put out poor quality.
This is part of why I've rejected the idea of lowering my car... In many cases, just patching potholes and fixing other issues as they arise isn't a viable long-term solution, the whole road needs to be re-done. Potholes are just a shallow-surface problem (literally), the problem extends much deeper - many bridges are falling down, in desperate need of replacement. Some are being repaired, but that's a loosing battle. Much of our highway infrastructure was built in the '50s-'60s, and was designed for a 50-year lifespan - it's done well, but it's time is up. Something I've seen a fair amount of in Colorado (particularly the Denver area) is small quiet neighborhood roads being redone before main city streets, which seems absurd. But there's another thing we must keep in mind with this other than cost - road repair, and even moreso much-needed complete rebuilds, require that roads be partially or fully closed or diverted for some time. This further increases the cost of traffic management around the construction, hinders traffic, causes traffic jams, and all other manner of bad things, I imagine that's part of the reluctance to do these long-overdue repairs, especially to spend the time (not to mention money) do them properly. Something I'd like to see more efforts on is doing construction quickly, developing methods to make it all run faster - do in a couple days what often seems to take weeks or months, do in a month what can take years, which would be helped by being able to close the entire road for that brief time rather than a large portion of the effort being working around a partially-open road. New methods in planning, having all equipment and materials staged beside the project prior to attacking. Using new equipment that can do the whole task quicker and with fewer steps - I envision a train-like repaving machine that rips up old asphalt, recycles it onboard, does whatever necessary surface treatments, repaves, rolls, paints, all in a single pass, without having to ship material in or out and no boots on the ground (much safer). To have everything in place, each machine movement and step planned out like a choreography. For workers to have been briefed in detail on the plan and exactly what they would be doing when. Attack and give it all they got, maybe the mentality of a football team or military force (compare with current construction workers standing around), try to build a team and camaraderie mentality among them. And get shit done!
Quill Maurer Poor road conditions & potholes (though I don’t live in the US) is a major reason why I stopped dailying a hot hatchback for a, tall riding CUV. Yes, the enthusiast in me laments the choice, but low profile tires and stiff suspension components fair horribly with poor roads, it can become too expensive/tedious to maintain them.
zeroelus I can remember the day my motor blew on one of my cars. That car had low profile tires and my substitute ride had some decently chunky 60 profile tires. The difference in ride quality over bumps was night and day. That was on a 2 year old car vs a 12 year old car respectively.
Driving through a road filled with potholess is like driving through a minefield
It's a specific skill. That's why, before I get my driver's license, I want to do a speedrun of the worst road in my city for potholes, Hall Street up by I-70. I want to be able to drive like I'm playing Mario Kart so I don't hit potholes too hard
So instead of shifting their budgeting around, they’ll just raise taxes on the citizens? Lol ok
And lower taxes for the insanely rich
@@rogerrock12games and that was the way under the french king
They should stop their funding on US Military and shift the budget towards recreating roads.
@@kirubashankar7249 wow, man stupid idea but A for effort.
@@bandit8578 tell me why it's a stupid idea
We dont need an increase in taxes, we need a decrease in crap spending. And for as cheap as dirt roads might be to repair, they go to hell much faster...if you think potholes are bad, try driving down several miles of washboard!
microbuilder That's like most of the roads here in Wyo
I agree less spending on crap, but it's actually one of the few taxes that all goes to it's intention. It just needs to be like 5 times more
Trevor Risen same here in Minnesota, many dirt roads are so bad you cant go more than 15-20mph without destroying your suspension (or your back) or losing control.
Krimson Wolf true enough, but if we were to cut spending we could funnel more money into road repair, with something more durable than asphalt. They fixed a few potholes down the road from me last summer, and the heat alone caused the patch to lift and make an even bigger hole.
microbuilder hate to hear that man. Hope your front end holds up
Ramchargers!
Raising taxes is a bogus answer to this problem. It only allows for more corruption and more poor public money management. As a civil engineer who knows a thing or two as the host pointed out I can tell you the lobby inside the white house and senate make billions a year in the sole purpose to keep these roads in poor conditions. A dear friend of mine who graduated 30yrs prior to me and has specialized in asphalt and road building has built countless roads who require little to no maintenance. Wanna know the catch? They're all privately owned. Like I said, public money is but a thing of waste to politicians and big corporations. Also another lame excuse people give is saying that roadworks help keep people employed. Yeah, so does drug dealing but I don't see them raising their flags asking for your vote. Bottom line is if you don't complain they'll stick it up further until you can't take it anymore.
Can you tell us more about these magic roads that don't require maintenance?
@@karremanchill95 Not a civil engineer but I'm a software developer who writes and maintains software for civil engineers for managing road networks and tracking maintenance and repairs. And the cheapest way to have good quality roads is simply preventative maintenance.
When a road is freshly paved it will have a certain lifespan, while specific duration will vary based on climate and traffic load... it may last 2-3 years in a near perfect condition before you start to see faults in the road. Then eventually the road condition will reach a "critical" point, where the road is no longer structurally sound, and its rate of deterioration increases drastically. Once this critical point is passed, it may only last 6-12 months before the road becomes nearly unbearable to drive on, or at the very least very uncomfortable. Then after this phase, the rate of deterioration smooths back out. If you plot the rate of deterioration over time it will look like an "S" curve.
Now obviously it is extremely expensive and time consuming to scrap up the entire road and do a fresh pave. It is far more cost efficient to do preventative repairs every year so that the road never reaches the critical point. And in the northern places like in Chicago or Canada, where they experience freeze and thaw cycles each year, that will drastically decrease the lifespan of a road. So preventative maintenance is far more important.
@@karremanchill95 Roman roads have lasted thousands of years - or look at Germany's high-speed autobahn. It has a crazy thick foundation layer to resist water expansion and cracking. We just don't build things to last as long here.
Vitu dude your dumb most of roads paved now WERE some by private companies. Just because the government is funding it doesn’t mean they built it. They outsource it to private companies and give them contracts to maintain it which they often don’t. The only reason why it’s expensive now because we let it get this bad. Keeping up with maintenance on the road keeps costs down but we ignore it and in the end it costs more from ignoring it.
@@jusbertmeza4424 pay attention to what he said. He didn't say the roads weren't built by private companies. He said the best roads were "private roads" ie roads not owned or payed for by the government. They are privately owned, and so the owners want to get a good value for their dollar, because they have to spend their own money to fix it. For politicians, it's not their money that builds or fixes the roads, so they don't give a shit how much it costs. And like he said, often it's better for them if it costs more, because they get lobbied by those same companies who are going to build the roads.
I’ve Seen this before but the fact that I hit a damn crater this morning rounding a corner this made me want to watch again. My poor baby
Was riding my motorcycle when I passed a pair of potholes that could've easily buckled me off my horse. I could've rode on by but thought about the next rider. He/she might not miss it and end up seriously injured. So I pulled over and called the city and told them about it. Next day it was filled. Good on ya Mesa, AZ for the quick response. Bad on ya for that sneaky speed cam on Pecos...
Who needs speed bumps when you have potholes
Win-Win!
Recently my grandpa hit a pothole in his jeep on Humboldt Street in St. Louis that was shaped in the perfect way to basically be an inverted speed bump
Nolan, do an episode on the rivalry between Ford and chevy in the US
Neither of them have been as successful as Cummins, end of story.
Dakuwa, fair enough, I thought it might be an interesting topic and give us foreigners an insight on the legendary rivalry
Dakuwa, but TBH, In my opinion, a turbo diesel spool will beat the sound of any aspirated v8 anyday
alxatllg gaming The rivalry hardly has any footing in deeper auto history anyway. Mostly just dudes trying to measure displacement when it was hip to blow hella gas since neither could keep up with dodge.
Dakuwa yeah right, thanks for the insight 👍
my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars
That line always cracks me up😂
A million dollars is a small loan when it comes to real estate investment.
When people hear that line they think of all the things they can buy with a million dollars, not how to invest it.
CrainRacing You missed the fact that his FATHER was the one to give him the loan. Not a bank, not a credit union, just dear old daddy.
That's what highlights how stupidly out of touch Trump is, and that's what Trumpettes seem to ignore. I don't know if you're a Trump supporter or not, but when Trump supporters see Trump haters mocking Trump for saying "Daddy loaned me a million dollars," Trump supporters think that the only thing Trump haters are mocking is the dollar figure, when really it's the WHOLE statement that Trump haters find absolutely ridiculous.
Yes and in his case lose the money! If you can't make money starting out with a million dollar something is definitely wrong with you
CrainRacing also that million isn't ajusted for inflation, today it would be over 8 million that he really got
Not from the US but this video was really informative especially the info about road wear and quality. Great stuff
The roads of Illinois are shit. I can personally say, I live here
@@craigjensen6853 I remember when I visited Detroit back in '03. The worst roads I've ever experienced. I've been on gravelly dirt roads that were smoother than the roads I had experienced there.
I live in Michigan. By far, the worst state for road conditions.
Why do our roads suck? Because politicians propose tax increases and new taxes year after year saying "its to fix the roads" then they put the money into programs that aren't even road-related. For example, the gas tax increase of ~18 cents/gallon was supposed to generate 500 million in revenue per year for the state.
But then, 350m went to "education" (which translates to salaries for administrators) and 110m went to "welfare programs" (ie "poor people" who abuse such programs to avoid working)
Oh, then they choose to do road "improvements" instead of fixing existing roads. 2 mile stretch of highway that doesn't need repaving? Repave it for 13 million dollars, then ignore the literal minefield on the road just before the onramp. Then, they increase the cost of registration, and enforce the replacement of license plates older than 10 years, regardless of condition.
It's alright to tax people to death "to fix the roads" as long as 80% of those tax dollars go to wasteful spending right? right?
WigglingWaffles gotta love Michigan roads. I drive a lifted truck with cushy offroad suspension and big mud tires and it's still like riding on the rumple strip. It's about time for some camburg long travel suspension and air shocks
Surprisingly this year and last year a ton of Michigan roads are finally getting attention
I bet Alaska has worse road quality. Not only is there little funding but we have very few roads that very highly traveled. It’s worth it to drive slow
The reason I've replaced my fork seals three times in a year is because of the road leading to my place of employment. To avoid replacing fork seals again I've taken to riding in the opposing lane of traffic just to avoid the minefield of potholes the north traveling side of the road. I will be part of the 33% of road condition fatalities.
Reminds me of the other Michigan boondoggles like tax increases to improve the water quality of the great lakes raise the taxes then the money they were already spending on the lakes goes to other things instead. Same goes for the lottery profits which were supposed to go to improve the schools the lottery money did go to the schools but the other money the state was already spending on schools got subtracted from education and went elsewhere.
Legalize all drugs. Tax them like crazy. Decrease the money spent trying to stop people from doing those drugs. There is your surplus of money. FYI if people want to do drugs they are going to do it no matter how many laws you have on the book. For example i could aquire any type of drug I wanted in Middle school and I lived in an upper middle class area lol
Not to mention the money saved from incarceration. We have so many people locked up over petty marijuana charges. Keeping inmates ain't cheap
also legalizing/regulating prostitution would also make a nice source of tax revenue too c:
Alligator Andy that ain’t gonna happen, because the same system that’s trying to stop drugs is the same system that fed them and still is feeding them to the people for a profit.
CA spends 512 billion a year needs 13b according to San Jose Mercury news per yr for ten years to fix outdated highways and roads. Maybe CA should re-prioritize its budget or not. But you dont need North Dakotas money because CA wants to spend 56b a year on gov pensions or 48b on welfare and 110b on healthcare. Pony up or drive into a pothole.
Dartanion- California is a bad example for anything. Don't ever used California as an example
how about local businesses getting to advertise by every pothole they sponsor the repair of?
Sam Haines we don’t have that many businesses
Tire manufactures would love the idea
Dust Striker no they wouldn’t ... they’d lose money with pot holes filled
You know what I feel like that would actually help. haha!
That's what Domino's is doing now! They've been filling potholes and spray painting ads on top of them.
When I go to get Culver’s in Wisconsin, I get a massage that costs me a tire and my wallet
Wait til they ask you to pave the road in gold. Think suspention & frame damage.
im there with ya
6:54 Hey someone in my area did the same thing and got the pothole fix.
I was always told Chicago WAS a pothole.
(Drugs)
I wonder if they use the asphalt as a bong over there
Ahmmm... Not quite! U forget to consider that taxes r mostly wasted on bureaucracy rather than actual product.. I also see roads that r lightly damaged repaired rather than the ones that really need it. And finally we build roads incorrectly and then salt the S@&t out of them causing them to crack. I can go on and on. Bottom line $ is not the issue.
Thank Democrats
This is probably the only POT I don’t love
Mike Arredondo Pol Pot?
Buwwhahahaha
Alex Giangreco weed is known as pot
I see what you Dude here
RyanGamer1317-Minecraft y otros juegos!
Wow you're dumb
You guys from US are lucky, here In lithuania after winter there is quite some potholes, but they are not too bad, but when they want to fix it, then it becomes really bad.
lets say there is a small bump on almost all streets in the city, and few potholes, they fix it like this, they choose the street, they dig out big ass potholes, to re fill, but the main thing they leave them, for about 1-2weeks and all you have in 300m street about 50 potholes in shape of square, that are man made and they are so deep, that, you can damage wheels or suspension only by going 10km/h and they are there to stay for 2 weeks, let me note you that before that there was like 2 potholes and minor bumps in that street before fixing it and after that, they choose next street and repeat, until next winter comes, those streets literally a mine field.
oh and half of the time they forget to put down a sign that go slow and that there is potholes, almost everytime you find out about potholes the hard way, almost everyone I know have damaged the car to that issue including me, this is such a stupid problem that should not exist, just fix the potholes the same day you started fixing them.
I'm a truck driver in Nevada, and I go from Reno to Elko and back 4 days a week (about 570 miles round trip). The highway is fantastic and pretty smooth.
I had a co-worker joke that "you can tell when you cross the border from California into Nevada, because the road stops moving" (bumpy road vs smooth as glass)
Living in Belgium I can tell you we also have a sh*tload of potholes :-(
Ah and our gas prices are more dan double!
Especially in Wallonia...
In Italy there are more potholes than the world's population ;(
Really sad really, has every government forgotten their people have to drive to work?
@@mojojoji5493 right, because potholes are the only thing that government has to fund
_ Beferrr shut up ;) it would help greatly so fuck off
How is the C?
Informative. I don't even live in USA lol but okay , have to watch since it's donut
Stay where you are. It sucks over here.
Lol. USA is then portrayed as a great country
+sharief mitchell wait till our country gets better(fingers crossed) before visiting, or moving here. Right now its a little janky.
Daps Fix can you please elaborate?
+sharief mitchell you made me realize I am. a very pessimistic person, I take my statement back.
Watching this from Namibia. Filling potholes with tears.
Uncle Jerry:
"Nurse Nolan! You forgot to wipe off the bottom left corner of the lens for the wide shot camera! And I'm ready for my sponge-bath!"
Time to buy a spray paint can and draw some cucumbers!
Get the local and federal government to stop overcharging for road construction and putting 80% in their families bank accounts
Aaron Mikusa ding ding ding! Right on. Most of what goes into the Federal pockets never comes back to us except as economic windfall from the Sanders' and McConnells 70th vacation home purchases.
🐸☕
This is america
As time goes by and I see these comments more often, I start to think that us Mexicans and you Americans have a lot more in common than we thought.
Aaron is thinking outside of the box. Not something the government encourages. Getting private pothole repair workers who are competitive with each other would be too damn efficient.
6:50 I have found my purpose in life.
mine too lol
I come from the Netherlands . I didn't even know what potholes were. The roads are so smooth over here. If they start to go bad they build a new road.
The schlong bandit. It will be my band name if I ever learn to play an instrument. Lol
You guys in the US know nothing about high gas prices 😂
TheLeewi98 While European gas is more expensive, the US relies on cheap fuel. The US is huge. Most people cannot walk or bicycle to their work, school, etc. and public transportation cannot pick up the slack. Hiking gas prices here to $4+ a gallon would instantly put the brakes on the economy.
Gary The Cycling Nerd yeah that might be true.
That's why most of France ride on bicycles lmao
Climatically, most of Europe is more conducive for walking or cycling than the US.
The US is often too hot or too cold for commuting like some Europeans.
TheLeewi98 come to England
Hell yeah I’m from Houston!! The roads ain’t bad lol
you must not drive around much.
Daps Fix there really not bad. You must not travel much to other states. I was up north and the road are pretty nasty
Solution: Get giant tires.
That moment he mentions your tiny little state at 4:46 that never gets attention really makes you happy. And plus, I am pretty sure we have the worst rodes in Lil' Rhody.
Drove in NY/NJ for 30 years. Potholes there are worse than anywhere. Literally got 2 blown tires and cracked rims in 15 seconds on NJ turnpike. On video no less!
If you have a good car and a manual you can skip a small(15inch) pothole by skipping but otherwise you are screwed.
Only positive is it taught me how to fix a tire anywhere, unless on the sidewall, on any continent.
Engineering Explained got his rims bent on a pothole.
The solution is buy a pizza from dominos and say a pothole was in the road and ruin your pizza.
Solution to what
@@befer hunger and flat tires
@@befer Dominos will fill the pothole
I'm from belgium and there are potholes everywhere..
Netherlands on the other hand have waaay better roads. Even when u cross borders and drive in to Netherlands the road noise lessens
Was thinking the same thing
Thats cause our roads aint made of concrete
Thanks for the compliment. Though we pay a lot of road tax, motor vehicle tax and excise tax on fuel because of this. One of many reasons people ride bicycles a lot and we come to Belgium to refuel.
Im from the Netherlands
I live in Santa Monica and travel a lot. I don’t see many roads messed up. After these recent rainy days, I see people already closing roads and repairs. I guess i should be great-full for not having to experience bad roads
Since we're one this topic, come here to *Baltimore.* Foot-long trenches (potholes); buckled asphalt capable of creating a flowing river; intersections shifted like the San Andreas fault. It's long overdue someone brings attention to this.
Nobody wants to pay more for taxes when so much tax money is already being pocketed, wasted, and handed off to government contractors that made campaign donations. Start repairing roads with recycled plastic. It's cheap and good for the world.
Asurems
And you guys drive a lot of American cars! Tesla rules in Norway.
@Asurems just because it worked in norway doesn't mean it will work for the US. The US and Norway have drastically different laws and is also immensely larger than Norway. It is hard to account for all of thise extra variables that Norway doesn't have to deal with. There is no guarantee that 200 dollars per car tax would work the same way it did for Norway and could end up just going into the pockets of those damned weasels in washington. We americans don't like to trust our politicians specifically becuase they don't give us a reason to. California spent approximately 5 billion dollars to try and fix the homeless crisis. What ended up happening was a complete joke of a solution and the problem getting even worse. Just tossing more money at something will not fix anything as many Americans know from first hand experience.
@Asurems That tax works for Norway because those funds actually goes to fixing the roads. That wouldn't necessarily happen here, however. They'd most likely just take the money and leave the roads as-is.
@@americancitizen1885 you are dumb if you support us military budget. They already spend more than the top 10 countries combined!!! There is literally no excuse. They don't have to raise taxes but reallocate the budget away from military towards things that will actually benefit American citizens like better roads, healthcare and education
AD1 Thank the democrats
Actually funding goes down as cars have to become more fuel efficient ...
And then they go electric too
@@AJ213Probably so introducing a road tax is inevitable.
We don't need yet another tax, especially one on fuel that will hurt the poor the most.
We need spending reform in all corners of Government.
Totally. let's allow our broken roads to continue wrecking havoc on cars and people, while we await the return of our lord and savior "spending reform". I hear he's due any day now, no reason not to get our hopes up.
CrainRacing then how about an increase in the income tax...?
Hazztech Or decrease in School spendings, since the 70's tax spending for schools got higher, while test grades been the same.
Nick Rynearson you're telling people that they need to invest LESS in their children? Yeah, no. On top of moral reasons, An educated population is the only way a developed nation can survive economically.
Also, additionally, school spending in many places has gone down, sometimes tremendously, or stagnated while inflation and costs increased significantly.
You need to stop trying to barter with taxes. They have to go up. Best way to do it is with a carbon tax.
Why keep increasing taxes when it just ends up getting miss used in general funds?
One thing that's may be important to add: the sprawling suburbs of the US gave you an incredible amount of road per inhabitant. Following that, the US has to spend far more on roads on a per head base, then most other regions of the world. In relation to germany you have to maintain 2 and a half times the road per head. And that doesn't account for the width, since american roads are normaly much wider then european roads. A higher density and smaller roads could allow you to save a big amount in road maintenance.
If you ask me, it's cheaper in the long run to do it right the first time.
I'm in Canada, it snows here, which means snow plows. When they patch a road full of potholes in the summer, the snowplows simply remove the patches over the following winter.
When they completely re-pave a section of road INSTEAD of patching it, the snowplows don't destroy it in a couple months. In my opinion though, pavement / tarmac is too soft and prone to deformation to be a reasonable long-term road surface. We should be paving our roads with something less prone to temp / humidity changes and something that doesn't deform as easily. Yea, it's more expensive up-front, but if it means better roads long term, why wouldn't you?
3:39 "but GAS what..." I see what you did there.... sneaky...
3:15 i just watched over that movie last night lolz
TRAPzilla GAMING What movie?
Lucas Ringsmuth damn.... I can't remember the name of the movie that was aired last night if you search up the name that was said you might get it it was a meme sometime
Huge crater in the road during a rain storm bent two of my wheels. Wanted to to sue the county sooo bad
Did you? You absolutely should. They should pay for your lawyer fees & vehicle.
The government steals money from us, through taxes, and they can't even efficiently & trustingly use it, for what's really important, like maintaining our roads.
Fuck.
What if you or someone died, because a pothole, sent you out of control into an oncoming bus or semi?
In my state, electric bicycles are illegal, apparently, because someone on a moped, crashed & died, because of a pothole.
And instead of using that accident, as more reason to fix our fucking roads. Our stupid asshole of a government just bans all powered vehicles, that can't be registered. And that gives them another excuse, to extort money out of good people, through their thugs, the police.
Kuro Kohi
If that's true. Then that's more reason the government should be phased out of existence.
Like anyone else, they should be fired, for doing their job so poorly.
Hi! I don’t know if you will even respond to this comment, but I am currently doing a research project on potholes and this video was incredibly helpful. I just had one question: Do you guys have a list of the resources used in the video?
In the Philippines we don't need roads. Hell there's a place here called Alitagtag (Ali-tag-tag), and god, the potholes here are basically the same amount amount of roads here!
good luck if you are thinking about visiting the province of quebec!
by car you will know when you're in the province
hugonubario im a victim of many flat tires man on the lovely roads of quebec😪 potholes traumatize me alot
same for me!
at one point I thought the suspension strut would travel trought the hood of my car
I change my path to avoid most of them and at some point I refuse to use my car to save it from serious damage
I've gone to Montreal and Ste.Eustache 4 years in a row. I'd say our roads in Ontario are just as bad. Both provences pay a lot in gas tax so where does that money go?
I'm asking the same question!
Hey dudes, keep up these video's. They are fun and I learn something every week. That's the equivalent of your mom giving you books about dinosaurs when you were 11... so... Good job.
"we have the responsibility to look out for each other" - Nolen
I've lived in Chicago for 20. I guarantee you the city does not fix 1,000 potholes a day. If anything, we generate 1,000 potholes a day. The only time potholes are removed is only when they completely repave the roads.
I'm sure someone's mentioned it by now, but the Roman's built roads several centuries ago that are still in damn near the same condition the were when they were constructed.. Idk why it's so difficult to do the same things THEY did to OUR roads.. If we did, I guarantee our roads wouldn't fall apart anywhere NEAR as fast as they do now, & I'll bet repairing/maintaining them would be quite a bit easier, cuz they'd have a stronger base..
@@llV_Vll which is exactly the problem, as you pointed out.. They're not helping.. All the more reason to gut the MULTIPLE levels of needless bureaucracy that exists within the Federal Gov't.. There's several billion saved right THERE!! I mean, do we REALLY need a committee to research & discuss the effects of narcotics on green tree frogs to see if it makes them more promiscuous?!? Cuz something to that effect ACTUALLY went on!!! Rand Paul chewed out multiple members of the Gov't for pissing away taxpayers money on DUMB shit, cuz apparently, they couldn't figure out what to do with a shit ton of money they had at their disposal...🙄 Look it up, it's here on YT..
@@llV_Vll better yet, here.. I did the hard part for ya.. 😉
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Ramchargers 🙌
Obviously u Haven't been to India. bro there are 1000 potholes per km
You found the perfect way to raise taxes specifically on the lower middle class workers who have to make long commutes in work vehicles.
If you can afford to live in the city, or a Tesla, you're untouched lol.
Oooooof
In our country they even created a newspeak so pothole filling is now called "selective single surface treatment" so it sounds more like expensive repair.
I was one of the 3,000 pothole damage victims..on my birthday last year (2020). Costed me $719 after insurance and it doubled my insurance rates. Fortunately the construction company at fault reimbursed me months later.
5:14 What about motorcyclists and cyclists? They can't use gravel as their road, less traction is dangerous 😂😂
i biked on gravel for years lol. fuck the cyclist
Politics always made something worst. even Politic even can make peace so hard to effort.
Doßka
Which is why I'm an Anarcho-Capitalist. I don't believe or participate in politics.
George Carlin is right.
Politics are just an illusion of choice.
Government is the real problem.
We need to reduce, and ultimately get rid off the government.
That is what Libertarianism & Anarcho-Capitalism, are all about.
Getting rid of government, and all the costs & problems that exists, because government exists.
potheads and potholes
1:08 Lol, wtf, you couldn't be more wrong. Belgium suffers many of the same problems as the US in that we sprawled out too much instead of keeping our cities compact.
We have the densest road network in Europe even though our population density is smaller than the Netherlands for example.
The problems are even worse in the former industrial areas of Wallonia where they built way too much infrastructure due to the infamous waffle-iron politics and now they don't raise enough money to cover the maintenance costs.
The only issue with the gas tax raise, is that in my state we have already increased our gas tax and are paying more for other government services that they told us would go to road funding, however when the last budget went through the funding for state roads didn’t increase, they took the cash and placed it in the “general fund” instead.
Pretty sure this is why Ford is giving up on cars. We have potholes bigger then the wheels on small cars. Thus everyone wants an SUV.
What the hell car you drive that averages only 15 mpg??
He could really be driving anything. My miniblazer only gets about 8
Any Subaru is worse then 15 mpg
A 2016 Toyota Tundra gets that, that's worst than the Ram, Silverado, and the F-Series.
Pretty sure he has a mustang 2005-2009 model
I'm not paying for just another of LA's fiscal failures.
Anxiously waiting for the day California breaks off from the rest of the U.S.
+Cameron Massey So you want the US to be worse off? CA brings up way more (federal) tax revenue than it receives.
coenijn I think the best option would be for LA and San Francisco to secede from California so everyone else doesn't have to deal with their political naivete.
How are LA and SF politically naive? If you combine the population of the Greater LA Area and the entire SF metropolitan area you'd get to a total of 22-23 million people (18.7 mil for GLAA, 4,7 for SF metropolitan area). That alone makes for around 2/3 of CA's population. The rest of CA seceding from those two areas would probably ruin much of the subsequent state economy because they's have a shit ton of land with way less people.
It makes zero economic sense for the rest of CA to secede (assuming it even being a possibility to begin with) as it would probably leave most of CA worse off. Just because you do not like many of CA's policies does not make them naive. Just because you think your ideology/policy ideas are better than CA's current leadership doesn't mean they are better
Fellow Chicago-ins
If you’re from Chicago, then you know that when the city says they filled the potholes, what they actually mean is they turned them into uneven speed bumps in the middle of the god damn road.
I didn’t realize that when I decided to go to the store today I was actually hitting a double black diamond with Moguls littered up the ass on the street.
Whack
Let’s all move somewhere that doesn’t tax us for yawning in public. That is all
Yup, in Illinois some of the roads have stretches that have potholes the width of the whole road for miles.
Uh oh. California-based Donut Media making a video involving the word "politics". Let's see if this video involves talk about how somebody thinks my money should be taken from me.
Aaaand it is.
Westerners: Why are there so many potholes?!
Asians: Hold my rice
We have more pot holes than pot heads
jwinturbo pot holes for pot heads... Campaign slogan
I know I’m pretty late here but I recently read an article describing the US’ low gas prices as a crack addiction. To put it simply gas is waaaay too cheap in the US. Not only should the gas tax cover road work, it should also discourage people from driving. We need to get people off the road and invest in public and mass transit. Mass transit will always be superior mode of transport to personal vehicle use.
He talked about the lack of funding because the gas taxes haven't been raised but what you're missing is the fuel efficiency of cars have increased as well as the fact that the electric cars don't pay for the roads to be improved because they pay no taxes towards them.