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Phl_worldwide t1_ix7q9my wrote

Reply to comment by poopfeast in I present to you, the road from hell (N 30th St and Girard) by LohnJennon__

This year, they did this every where. From south Philly to literally the center of center city, they dug shit up and left it there for like a month before finishing. Truly a terrible way of doing things. The Streets dept needs a very serious criminal investigation into its actions

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MomsSpecialFriend t1_ix876ht wrote

This is becoming a thing. Penn Dot is being sued for leaving a street dug up and it killed a motorcyclist despite many complaints and accidents already. I live outside of Philly and they leave roadwork incomplete for months at a time, and UGI digs up the street over and over again whenever they would like instead of doing any real repairs. They put up signs for no parking the whole week and they may or may not even appear. It’s way out of control and there is no care for the human beings interacting with their projects.

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Imprettystrong t1_ix9hqut wrote

This is America. Getting things done as cheaply and shittily as possible.

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rootoo t1_ixb248m wrote

No other major city in the US does this like this.

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Hashslingingslashar t1_ixah1gu wrote

There have been more things getting done lately at least though. Growing pains I guess.

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FlyByPC t1_ix8wqi2 wrote

Thirty years ago, I spent a month in France as a summer exchange student. While I was there, they repaved the road in front of the house where I was staying. Crew and machines proceeded down the road at roughly a slow walk, paving as they went. An hour or so later, they came back the other way and did that lane. People went around them as they worked -- without even closing the road.

Never seen anything like it over here.

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WisejacKFr0st t1_ix8ja3c wrote

We have had a sinkhole growing through our sidewalk for the last month or so. We reported it when it was just a few bricks sinking down and now it stretches 5 houses. We’ve put in 3 tickets but due to other work on our road (resurfacing and gas line work) all the tickets keep getting marked as resolved, when all the road work equipment is making the hole worse!

It’s crazy the incompetence surrounding their own web ticket system, I can’t imagine how day to day management is.

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poopfeast t1_ix83c4c wrote

Funny enough they did this on my block as well, dug a big patch out and left it for a day. Repaired the hole the next day, but never actually fixed or did any work.

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inconspicuous_male t1_ix8l1zo wrote

I was going to complain to 311 about a ditch that some workers keep digging up and leaving uncovered on 47th for most of the past year. Didn't realize how big and widespread the problem actually is

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gatitosforever t1_ix8v3qj wrote

ya south philly was a nightmare for a while, dug it all up and left it for weeks

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iProduceCode t1_ixaqt2s wrote

Agreed. My car is fucked from these roads, I've been knocked off my bike because they left a 1ft deep hole across the entire road and bike lane, and it was deeper than it looked. On top of this, I ride in the bike lanes and there's randomly piles of cement almost 2x-3x higher than a speed bump across the bike lanes from times that they had to dig into the ground, and decided to just put a pile of cement on it to "fix" it. they don't even flatten it

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