If Greensboro’s City Council voted to raise taxes to borrow and spend for a swimming pool and a hotel parking deck, is the city prioritizing discretionary spending over needed road maintenance?

Potholes popping up all over Greensboro

 

…Rough spots are breaking out all over on such heavily traveled arteries as Battleground Avenue, South Elm-Eugene and Lee streets, Cone Boulevard, Holden Road, Westover Terrace and others.

 

…The city anted-up less money for its annual resurfacing program, which heads off conditions leading to potholes…

 

Last year, the city saved money — at least, in the short term — by not carrying out its annual resurfacing contract.

 

Long term, if you cut corners on repaving worn streets, reality bites you from behind with potholes now and more extensive resurfacing efforts required later…

 

…Repair shops that specialize in tire and frame work are seeing a lot of cars that need realignments, which generally cost in the $70 to $80 range.

 

Taft Wireback

Greensboro News & Record, Wednesday, January 20, 2010