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I took this picture today, after the contractor hired by the city competed paving operations on State Street. This is at the intersection of Willett and State. This is just horrendous. How much extra would it have cost to have the contractor sawcut the transitions? Or run a bobcat with milling head across the road? Callanan is a huge company and does far larger projects than this, and knows better.

The better question is, why wasn't city engineering out to inspect their work? Or if they couldnt be bothered come out and inspect the TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars of work that was completed over the last two days, why not hire an inspection company to do it for them? Or did city engineering look at this and go "looks good enough to me?"

This is terrible. Every single other intersection is the same story. It will ride terrible, it will cause tripping hazards. The second it drops below freezing and a plow goes over it, its going to blow out. And at that point, all this work was done why? Just to spend money?

Half of the manholes for the sewer are a couple millimeters high. High enough so that when the drum rolled over them, no compaction was achieved on the asphalt around it. This will also blow out as soon as a plow goes over it.

The taxpayers pay a ton in taxes to the city, particularly over here where property values are so high. Citizens deserve far better than this absolutely terrible work for the money they pay.