Running amuk

The intent, and logic, of the persons in charge of our city services is specious. The city purchased 30 "articulated" buses - you know, the bendy ones with the accordian in the middle - to the tune of nearly a half million dollars each. Turns out the load of these buses is too heavy for some of our roads therefore creating pot holes and other road damage in their wake. The pot holes are so destructive that they crack the frames on the heavy buses causing them to be taken out of service to repair the damage they caused! This makes for untold expenses in vehicular repair, lost transit revenue, productivity as a result of gridlock & road repair, which btw there is only one pot-hole-fixer truck for 275 miles of road. If the road wear is so severe that it is destroying the chassis on these big, heavy buses imagine what it's doing to your car. As usual, planners knee-jerk for short term solutions without considering the larger problems they create in the long term. What a laugh.