• immutable@lemm.ee
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    27 days ago

    I dunno, reading the FAQ this seems like some of the least bad public private partnerships

    https://potholepatrol.co.za/faq/

    It’s an insurance company that doesn’t want to pay out for people damaging their cars on potholes. Seems like a rare win for everyone. Insurance company pays out less, people don’t slam into potholes damaging their cars, and I guess the insurance company gets some advertising.

    There are so many dystopia things going on, but I think this one is fine.

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    27 days ago

    In my country, a couple of years some neighbors got together and fixed a pothole on their street. They ended up getting fined by the local authorities for damaging public property…

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    27 days ago

    Honestly I wouldn’t care so long as they do it right. Around here you’re lucky if PennDOT drives over the asphalt with their truck once after the haphazardly tossed it in the hole still full of rain water. And they wonder why they have fixed the same pot hole in front of our drive way every spring for the 5 years we have lived here.

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    27 days ago

    Fuck yeah, South African innovation for the win. The potholes in my town are so bad, even jogging on the street in certain areas is hard. Fuck the ANC

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    27 days ago

    The reason your roads have so many potholes is because where you live likely has too much road infrastructure to support relative to the amount of taxes collected to maintain said infrastructure.

    In other words, it’s insolvent.

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      27 days ago

      It’s corruption not lack of money that’s the cause of the piss poor infrastructure in Johannesburg. Out of the three cities I’ve been to in SA it’s the only one that straight up doesn’t maintain anything.