By Juan Montoya
All through the holidays (and for years before), motorists on Roosevelt Street that connects McDavitt Blvd. to International Blvd. have been complaining of the chronic potholes that reappear every time there's a slight drizzle after Brownsville Public Works crews patched after the last rain.
For years, their calls for a solution have been unheeded. That's even though the thoroughfare is a popular one to traverse from McDavitt to 14th Street which leads to International and to both Four Corners and the Gateway International Bridge. At the corner of 13th Street is Victoria Elementary where school buses load and unload children and parents swerve to avoid the holes in the face of oncoming traffic.
And the patches have proven to be an inadequate response. The labor and materials used for this patchwork (sorry) solution washed away after each rain and went (literally) down the drain.
After years of making do with pothole patches, the City of Brownsville administration finally decided to implement a more permanent solution. On Tuesday, a paving contractor and Public Works supervisors huddled with engineers form the Brownsville Public Utilities Board to pave the stretch between McDavitt and 14th Street.For the meantime, traffic on McDavitt east has been detoured around Keith Street and to Arthur Street on the south and then around to 13th. (Click on graphic to enlarge.)
"We're going to do the stretch between 13th and the railroad (around Keith Street) first and then we're going to do from the railroad to McDavitt," said a PUB engineer.
PUB is involved because it is responsible for the sewer, water and electric lines both under the roadway and on the right-of-way.
8 comments:
If only you could write.
More like the SHITHOLE Capital of the world...
It's a bad situation Homie.
Yes and you're the turd inside.
A sad situation when we have such poor infrastructure in this city. Tony Martinez has wasted enough money to pave all the streets in town. He spent millions of dollars to benefit his friend Julieta Garcia in her dream to be the head of UTRGV....which never happened. The millions that Tony spent downtown, made it impossible to afford to repair our failing infrastructure. Then, there was Rose Gowen who spent enough of bicycles, bicycle trails and those armadillow like humps to also pave the city streets. We have all those trails, but even with them the city closes down to ride bikes in the city streets. Our mayor and the city commission have failed us and changes need to be made....the first is to defeat Tony Martinez and all sitting commissioners.
There's no doubt here NON-SHOULD BE RE-ELECTED we need an ALL new city commission and no retreads here.
There should be a city election every year that way repairs of streets and other important infrastructure improvements will be done...
Uh drive around the holes
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