Earlier this month, Brian posted photos of his road being regraded (here). It made me think I should do a post on the renewal of the main road to this part of the island, and here it is.
When I first moved here, the county had just finished a major resurfacing of this highway, a project which stopped about seven miles short of Hawi. For the past 11 years, those last seven miles have been patched and repatched. Every few months, a small crew in a truck parks by the side of the road, shovels asphalt into the holes, and tamps it down. A lot of semi-trucks and heavy equipment use the highway, so the repairs don’t last long. I’ve seen chunks missing from new patches within 24 hours.
It wouldn’t be so bad, but these days I drive a little Nissan hatchback and, when I hit one of these potholes, the car shudders like I would if I’d just been punched in the face by Mike Tyson. I’m just hoping proper repairs happen before my little car goes down for the count.
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Graham's Island 
Potholes like to eat small cars
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My little car is a trooper, but sometimes the shock of hitting a pothole seems likely to cause parts of it to fall off!
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With increased rain there’s increasing potholes. Perhaps councils could consider increasing road crews.
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They could, but their funds are increasingly stretched by a multitude of demands on them.
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oh no you’ve got as big a problem as we have here – there’s one pothole near me that is metres long!
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I expect it’s a worldwide problem. Lots of traffic and not enough resources to maintain the infrastructure.
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the only place I’ve been where the roads were amazing was Nevada and that’s because the income from taxes are gambling is so high!
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That’s pretty ironic!
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I agree . . also very bizarre and noticeable around Tahoe when you go from California into Nevada and vice versa.
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Please send your crew to Mexico. We have plenty of potholes to fill here!!!
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Ironically, the one in the top photo was patched today, so now they’re done here I can send them your way!
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Yes, I have seen a road be patched only for it to be like it was again 24 hours later.
Another road has that many holes you won’t be able to avoid them. It’s terrible.
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I try and drive carefully, but I still get caught out at times and bang into one I wasn’t expecting.
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