With winter upon us, that means the return of those glorious tire-wrecking, neck-shaking potholes. And, around here, we also have a salt shortage because of GRB manipulations and huge cost increases. As such, side streets and roads are essentially sheets of ice.
Nut, this was good news last summer in regards to the nation's oldest concrete street in Bellafontaine, Ohio. It is getting its potholes fixed. Court Avenue is a major thoroughfare and a way to get downtown, where merchants would rather see it used than preserved.
ODOT gave $215,000 to repair and restore it. When completed, almost 60% will be the exact way that inventor George Bartholomew first tested it here in 1891.
Thanks to Mobilene of American Road Forum for alerting to this one.
That is a Hole of Another Color. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
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