Fed up residents repair road in 8 days.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html

Their livelihood was being threatened, and they were tired of waiting for government help, so business owners and residents on Hawaii's Kauai island pulled together and completed a $4 million repair job to a state park -- for free.

Polihale State Park has been closed since severe flooding destroyed an access road to the park and damaged facilities in December.

So Slack, other business owners and residents made the decision not to sit on their hands and wait for state money that many expected would never come. Instead, they pulled together machinery and manpower and hit the ground running March 23.

And after only eight days, all of the repairs were done, Pleas said. It was a shockingly quick fix to a problem that may have taken much longer if they waited for state money to funnel in

Of course you realize that this "happening" will only bolster the fundies' claim that the gov should not be responsible for everything and we liberals like to rely on them for far too much.

I had a neightbor down the street get bitched at by the city and get a visit from the cops for...

fixing potholes in our road.

Dude got tired of bumping his way to the main road every morning and one weekend just went out and rented the equipment to fill them with asphault. Did a pretty good job as far as I could tell. City threatened to sue him over it. He told them okay, I'll just go bash the holes back into the road. Never heard from the city again.

under a bus full of school children. Sometimes cheap and fast isn't better.

Sid

:)

doesn't mean it was done cheap. Sometimes the people have to do the job, and will do it even better then a government agency, because they know it affects them and their community.

But there was at least one bridge involved.

Would you trust a bridge that was put up in a matter of days without any kind of certification that it was safe to drive over with heavy loads, like a bus full of children?

drive down the road and throw a couple shovelfuls of asphalt/sand into them. They figure the cars will tamp it down. They would if the first car didn't squish it all out of the hole. Minimum wage government employees aren't a panacea, you know.

and bridge repair.

Engineers go to school for a reason.

Sid

Not only on potholes.