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Every neighborhood with a school in it has horrible roads leading to the school. It makes sense the with buses and people dropping there children off that the road would need higher level of building than most other residential roads. Can we get some better built roads to our schools?
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Road Commission (Ospite)
Tad: This has been a long-standing challenge. Unfortunately, the presence of a school does not provide any additional road funding. Nor are schools required to contribute to the cost of building or maintaining roads. As a result, we have the problem you cite. Compounding the problem is the fact that many of these roads are subdivision streets. As a matter of policy, the Road Commission does not pay for the resurfacing of subdivison streets (because we have no funding to do so). We will work with the property owners to establish a special assessment district through which they can pay for the resurfacing through a special property tax assessment. However, many residents of streets where there are schools don't want to do this, because they feel the school traffic has contributed to the deterioration of the road (often true). So, we end up with a situation where the Road Commission has no funding to resurface the roads and the residents are not willing to pay for it. Sadly, this is not an unusual situation around Oakland County.
- Road Commission for Oakland County
Tad (Ospite)
Jim (Ospite)
I live on Winding Drive in Waterford. Winding Drive is not really a paved street. It is what I call a conveyance of covered pot holes posing as a paved street. But this is the plan to keep speeds down on Winding Drive. You see there is a grade school on Winding Drive and the potholio street protects the kids and they need it because there are no sidewalks on Winding Drive either. I guess you get what you pay for.
ROGER (Ospite)
Chiusa zedvilla (Ospite)