Rant & Rave: SDOT half-baked work

[wsn00b]

Rave: A few weeks ago, SDOT actually came out to fix 35th Ave SW and it wasn’t their pothole ranger team; an actual repaving team – yay!

Rant: After a whole production of partial lane closures with 8-9 large pieces of paving equipment and trucks, only a tiny sliver of a lane was paved a glorious 2 blocks from Myrtle to Holly.

What’s half-“baked” (half-a**-ed) about this?

The strip paved doesn’t align with the lane. It partially covered the turn lane and partially the driving lane. There will be guaranteed potholes starting on the seam this winter right in the middle of the driving lane. More future dangerous swerving opportunities created. We’ll now spend the next 2 years like mindless Sisyphean idiots punching away requests on the Find-it-Fix-it app. They also didn’t do the last pothole ridden block between Holly and the nice concrete of the Morgan/35th intersection. They also left the half-baked pothole ranger slap-dash fixed stretch between Othello and Myrtle in front of OLG.

It’s just a hodge-podge of expensive repetitive half-baked fixes on 35th.

Why didn’t they just properly pave a whole lane?
Why didn’t they pave adjacent blocks while they were out for the day or two?
Who manages this work?
Do different teams talk to each other?
Is this even cost efficient?
Can anybody explain if anything SDOT does is logical?
What the actual ****?

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[Chemist]

Looks like they’re going to get to 35th around 2023, if the money doesn’t run out first.

The real answer, based on listening to recent council talks/advisory committee meetings about Move Seattle budget allocations, is that there’s a budget threshold where projects are no longer done in-house and the get bid and contracted out as major projects. I think that was the same reason for that sidewalk near Delridge being done in half asphalt and half concrete.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Chemist. Reason: sidewalk, not crosswalk

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