Comments on: First Of Three Major Road Projects Gets Started In Century; Hwy. 29 In Molino, Hwy. 97 Next

By: escambiamom

escambiamom — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:26:14 +0000

I have some friends who don’t live on a county maintained road and the neighbors got together and had some basic road work done themselves. (It is more like a stone road, than paved.) They all chipped in and didn’t wait for the government to do it for them.

I do agree that the LOST fund money should be going to the things that it was pitched as paying for… paving roads, capital improvements, etc. And moving projects up and down the priority list would be infuriating. I have also seen roads or water projects held up by one or two neighbors who won’t grant the right of way. So there may be a lot of factors on why a road doesn’t get done.

The other things is that there is a political aspect to this whole thing. Comm. White has been pretty vocal about not increasing taxes and trying to get the Administrator to balance his budget … that is, make cuts and layoffs, and not use one time revenue to balance the budget. He has also tried to get to the bottom of some strange stuff that happens at the county departmental level. You better bet that there is retaliation and that “his projects” get moved down the priority list when he is making waves. I am not a White apologist, as I haven’t agreed with every decision he makes, but I think your anger is misdirected. You should be calling Bob McLaughlin, the County Administrator, and heating up his phone lines. He is the one directing the Road departments. And he is untouchable by election. Even though the Administrator is supposed to be taking direction from the Commissioners, that is never the reality. They are insulated from public opinion and it takes an “act of God” to remove them. (remember Touart?)

But I have to also agree with the posters who said that people knew they were living on a dirt road when they moved there. The privacy that you get from living on a dirt road also has its drawbacks. I do hope that your roads get paved soon. With all this rain this year it must be especially unpleasant and difficult!

My opinion, your mileage may vary …

By: TDD

TDD — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:04:42 +0000

If you don’t like the complaints then I suggest you not log on and read them. William let me know I was way off in my first comment. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to start a gripe, but it is interesting to know that their are others that feel the same way. And some people like to get on here just to make rude remarks about some other person’s opinion. You just can’t leave it alone can you?

By: smith

smith — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:16:07 +0000

Dear Not Pleased

No one told you to move down a dirt road!!!! LOL, some ppl just love to get on here and complain like a baby.

By: not pleased!

not pleased! — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:59:20 +0000

hey!!! pineville rd is dirt too…and its worse that phillips rd.!!!! i think someone needs to ride some of the “road commisioner” people up and down these dirt roads when they are wet and nasty and stick them off in the ditch and let them see just “how fun” it is LIVING ON A DIRT ROAD!!!

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:27:34 +0000

would you consider it ironic if you were waiting your turn to eat and someone cut in front of you for seconds?

By: Ike

Ike — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:32:32 +0000

I find it ironic that a story about roads being paved draws the gripes of roads not being paved.

By: wonder

wonder — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:37:41 +0000

When will 99 be repaved it is bad . I am concern with the many students that drive to school as well as school buses and teachers that travel this road it is narrow and many pot holes,

By: Here we go

Here we go — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:50:29 +0000

I just wish they would LEARN how to pave a road to where the water will not flood the roads when it rains. When I saw the other day how they mowed the lawn at the edge of Hwy.29 so that the water will stand right on the road all I could do was shake my head and chuckle. Geezzz, instead of repaving them flat, they need to make it so that the road is higher so that the rain water has a place to go and keep the grass mowed more often so that I don’t have to keep calling them to come out and cut the grass so when I go to make a turn I can see oncoming traffic
. But oh, that might mean a little more tar and that costs money.
And people should not have to live on a dirt road at all. Just about the same thing with the rain, but worse. Will we ever, get someone in the Transportation department that has a brain? Or someone in the Commissions Office that can do their jobs that our taxes are paying them for. Stop the lies and get your acts together.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:31:39 +0000

consider: If you paid to have your road paved by LOST funds and they did not choose to do it because they decided to divert the money, does it make sense to move?

For that matter, if someone promised to pave all the dirt roads within a certain time frame and there was a nice place you wanted, would it be unreasonable to buy it under the assumption the road would be paved withing the specified time frame?

Actually, it would be unreasonable because that implies you still trust politicians and have not yet learned your lesson.

David the trusting

By: joe bloe

joe bloe — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:22:47 +0000

HMMMMM….If you don’t want to live on a dirt road…..then don’t LIVE on a DIRT road!! I hate em too, so I don’t live on one.