How long is this bullshit gonna last?

The mess on Vine street. Anyone hear when it's gonna be done and over with?

heard it'll take 5 wks to do the southbound lanes

HDN story says July.

From personal observations, they are tearing up 12 inches of reinforced concrete and the leftovers are being dumped behind the VFW next to the scaffold storage for the A1 bankruptcy by sunflower bank.

nitromaxx98 wrote:

HDN story says July.

Which really means August 1st.

luv2cook wrote:

nitromaxx98 wrote:

HDN story says July.

Which really means August 1st.

That's really not too bad. How long was Kellogg in Wichita torn up?

Some portion of Kellog was torn up for years.Now they're talking about more work on the west side.

Nice to see they outsourced to a Salina company too...

I didn't see where Vine was in need of repair compared to other streets. Maybe they just wanted more trees in the center so visitors could feel all warm and fuzzy while they admire nature and ignore other drivers and it required complete removal and re-lay to do it.

Ratzilla wrote:

I didn't see where Vine was in need of repair compared to other streets. Maybe they just wanted more trees in the center so visitors could feel all warm and fuzzy while they admire nature and ignore other drivers and it required complete removal and re-lay to do it.

Hays City Commission notes wrote:

In 2004, Vine Street from 13th to 27th Street was milled and overlaid with 2
inches of asphalt. At that time, both the engineers and contractors involved in
the project agreed that the overlay was only a temporary repair job, and that the
next project would need to be a full pavement replacement. Since then, the mill
and overlay has already begun to fail and City crews have made several repairs.
The failure of the overlay is due to the deterioration of the concrete base below it.
The City has received KDOT Connecting Link funding to assist in funding
the cost of the pavement replacement. Smoky Hill Construction submitted the
lowest bid in the amount of $993,541 for reconstruction of Vine from 22nd to 27th
Street. The reconstruction of Vine Street from 13th to 22nd Street is budgeted for
2013.

I'm no expert, but the 12+ inch looks pretty damn solid to me.

nitromaxx98 wrote:

Ratzilla wrote:

I didn't see where Vine was in need of repair compared to other streets. Maybe they just wanted more trees in the center so visitors could feel all warm and fuzzy while they admire nature and ignore other drivers and it required complete removal and re-lay to do it.

Hays City Commission notes wrote:

In 2004, Vine Street from 13th to 27th Street was milled and overlaid with 2
inches of asphalt. At that time, both the engineers and contractors involved in
the project agreed that the overlay was only a temporary repair job, and that the
next project would need to be a full pavement replacement. Since then, the mill
and overlay has already begun to fail and City crews have made several repairs.
The failure of the overlay is due to the deterioration of the concrete base below it.
The City has received KDOT Connecting Link funding to assist in funding
the cost of the pavement replacement. Smoky Hill Construction submitted the
lowest bid in the amount of $993,541 for reconstruction of Vine from 22nd to 27th
Street. The reconstruction of Vine Street from 13th to 22nd Street is budgeted for
2013.

I'm no expert, but the 12+ inch looks pretty damn solid to me.

Sounds like they could have done it right in 2004, but they chose to do it at least twice. Just another example of wasted taxpayer money. Kind of surprised there were no federal funds involved.

So everything south of 13th will go neglected. I guess that's why down in the college area people are driving on concrete so hammered that the mesh is showing. I see this in a lot of places in that area.

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

So everything south of 13th will go neglected.

Not forever, Blackie. They will have some kind of plan by 2016.

$48,000

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

So everything south of 13th will go neglected. I guess that's why down in the college area people are driving on concrete so hammered that the mesh is showing. I see this in a lot of places in that area.

College area = and

Vine Street = Tourists and $$$$

You wouldn't want tourists to be terrorized by a crack in the pavement and run for Interstate before they've checked into their hotels would you? Besides, no one too important lives in Southwest Hays or they'd have put that low income housing somewhere else.

Ratzilla wrote:

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

So everything south of 13th will go neglected. I guess that's why down in the college area people are driving on concrete so hammered that the mesh is showing. I see this in a lot of places in that area.

College area = and

Vine Street = Tourists and $$$$

You wouldn't want tourists to be terrorized by a crack in the pavement and run for Interstate before they've checked into their hotels would you? Besides, no one too important lives in Southwest Hays or they'd have put that low income housing somewhere else.

Tourists??? who is going to be able to afford travel, let alone take a vacation and actually go anywhere. We will all be too busy working just trying to survive.

Hace doesn't want to attract you and I to stay in their hotels Luke. They want to attract those who have money. Like my niece and her husband who was able to retire at 50 with no worries. Their travels in recent years include California, Maine, Hawaii, the Bahamas, and Europe.