potholes?

[talludahling.livejournal.com]

The Boston Globe is on pothole patrol, and we need your help.

If you know of a nasty pothole in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, or Somerville, take a photo and e-mail it as a jpeg to:

ciweek@globe.com

Please include the address and describe the location of the pothole, the date the photo was taken, and your own name. Photos and the results of our pothole hunt will be published in a future edition of City Weekly.

thanks,

Emily Sweeney
The Boston Globe
www.boston.com/citytalk

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Rt 16. Belmont isn't one of the towns specified but if you're looking for awful potholes...except for that recently, miraculously resurfaced shunk, rt 16 is the surface of the moon.

Back when I was buying my current commuting bike, I bought a hybrid instead of a road bike *solely* because of Rt 16 -- I knew a road bike would never survive it. Even though I think that road singlehandedly added $100/year to my maintenance costs. Thank goodness I have found a route that avoids it now.

The thing that really gets me is it's been this bad for years. And every year, someone's done some kind of major work on it -- putting in a new utility line, or building a retaining wall -- something that has necessitated tearing up huge chunks of road. And they've patched but have not, by and large, taken the opportunity to resurface. It's just gotten worse and worse and worse.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Shunk? Shunk??!?! How the heck did I say "shunk"? What is a shunk?

I think I meant to say "stretch".

(Accessing LJ from my work is...not the easiest thing...and doesn't have the best interface.)

[yangelina.livejournal.com]

I lived in Belmont for a little over a year and never understood why a town that is supposedly so well-off financially can't take care of their streets.
And I think a shunk could be 'a shiny hunk of road.' Which works out very well to what you were saying. :)