I don't understand

[magid]

Why is it we can make all sorts of cool geeky things, from robots driving on Mars to nanotechnology, and yet there's still no way to repair a street so it's flat again without repaving the whole thing?

[grumble] bumpy patchwork roads [/grumble]

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[magid.livejournal.com]

What I really love is going over a freshly, levelly paved road one week and then seeing them cutting into brand new effing pavement the next week to get at a water main.

Yeah, that's just stupid. When I first moved to my place, they were redoing the street, and the city said that they'd communicated with all the utilities, etc, who might want to dig up the street, and it wouldn't happen for 5 years after completion. Which was almost true. But most of the time, it seems that they find problems right under the newest pavement around.

Boggle? Did someone say Boggle?