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Picture taken April 15Th, 2010, 11am, Buckhorn, (west Waynesville), Mo Absolutely no one around, no where. Grader still parked in the same spot 2 hrs later, still no one around. Don't get me wrong, I would like to have a $120,000 roadgrader sitting in my yard... BUT I for sure would have the nicest road in the county! For the record, I would like like to know... Is it to too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry or too what? Or is this machine parked here, as the county dump truck was parked at a local bank a week or so ago for the same reason... Employee personal time taken 'on the clock...' NOTE to Bill... FYI, Roads also don't fix themselves, they require roadgraders to be fixed. Roadgraders don't drive themselves (at least this one anyways), you have to have an operator in the grader to run it. For as bad as our roads are, this grader should have the throttle wide open for 12 hrs a day. And if you are not going to use it, donate the thing to the sheriff's dept., mabe JB can turn it into a couple of new cars (instead of rebuilding totals) or another employee or two (looks like 3 or 4 people sitting there...) so theres not a 37 mninute response time to people in my house...
The roads may also be a mess because the people who are supposed to maintain them don't know what they are doing. Came along my road, which is paved, dug deep trenches and took out support for the road and now the edge of the roads in several places are starting to crumble. They didn't need to dig so close to the pavement, actually there were no problems on our road, such as drainage. They could have spent their time fixing what needed to be fixed and it was not my road.
Maybe what we really need is a guest operator program. Every day one of our citizen experts can get on the grader and run it all day long. This would teach the county operators how to do their job and also save money with free labor.
wouldnt be so bad about the ditches but they were told to fill in most of there ditches from fema, fema said the ditches were to deep so fill them in. so again the workers do what they are told. And if you are having so much of a problem call stanley crismon and ask him why somethings are not done and why you seen a grader parked there. calling bill doesnt do much good considering he doesnt work on the road call the supervisor stanley
Well Kathy? You can't have it both ways... which is it? BTW I have already talked to all involved to no avail. I was told to %-off.
Ft Wood is where they teach military grader operators,bulldozing etc.Maybe someone could get the Fort to do "community action' once a month and haul equipment and trainees out and have them train on our roads.They certainly couldn't do any worse,I imagine.
people that learned grading from ft wood has gone to work for the county and never lasted until lunch time. i am not going to argue about what roads they had to fill in ditches and what ones they dig out all i know is some know what they are doing when they grade and others dont and omg dewi you are so right the roads you and i drove was oh so worse than pulaski county.
I love statements like that without any corroboration or examples.My point in having GI's do community action was not a dig against OUR County grader operators,it was a win/win suggestion.The GI's get real life work experience outside the "Million Dollar Hole" training area.The County gets work done free using free labor SUPERVISED by professional training instructors.The Armed Services YMCA has SOS,Service on Saturdays where military units volunteer for community projects.I am suggesting a similar type of work,community support program.Everybody comes out ahead with these type programs.
I have driven though many counties here in this region of Missouri. I know there are some counties that do a REALLY good job of maintaining the gravel roads and we know from this topic that some people feel our county and Camden county don't do such a great job, I don't mean that as a slam. The question is what could we learn from these counties? What makes them successful? For example go up to Morgan county their gravel roads most of the time are in really good condition and they are wide and smooth.
Anyone is more than welcome to come and visit my road and then can tell me 'how good' I have it... I live on Lament Rd in St Robert. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Saint+Robert&state=MO&address=%5B18200-18299%5D+Lament+Dr&zipcode=65584&country=US&latitude=37.843755&longitude=-92.17532&geocode=BLOCK If you can't find it, PM me and I will give you my number and specific instructions to my place. On good portion of my road, a crawl is too fast! Never mind a decent 10-15 mph travel speed... at 10 mph a 5-point harness is required to keep from knocking yourself out. The last time my road was graded the operator spent 17 minutes total on approx 2/3 of a mile of road. NO WHERE ENOUGH TIME!!!
Move to a county with flat ground?
I will try and come by this evening if I don't forget. Just Lament you are refering to? I will try and drive it at 30mph..
To be honest I really don't care what they do on the eastern side since I am on the western side, but esb I know for a fact the best thing you can do is talk to Stanley Crismon and Bill Farnham about doing anything to the county road. I myself wouldn't want to risk a lawsuit for messing with the county road even the ditches. I seen first hand when Dennis was in office what he told one guy that would actually go out into the county road after it was graded and dig potholes in front of his house to slow traffic down, he was informed if he got out and done it again he would be paying for the cost of chat and the grader operators time. So just saying you may want to check and see what kind of legal rights you have.