The engines never seem to quit, but I do find myself replacing suspension parts a lot. They're finally fixing some of the roads, but parts of 78 and route 9 are like swiss cheese half the year [emoji35]
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That's the case all over, state governments are "strapped" and so the hit doesn't come to salaries, it comes to services. Iowa gave IADOT a 10 cent per gallon addition to the fuel tax a couple years back only to have IADOT a year later say it wasn't enough to do anything with. Yeah, it wasn't enough to do anything except give everyone at IADOT a salary increase.
What it comes down to it that DOT engineers don't want to be involved in repairs because that's not glamorous and it doesn't give them the support they need for their existing position. The only thing they can do that protects their job is the designing of new roads, which we don't need anymore of, and the new ones are **** anyway.
My claim to representatives is that we need to maintain what we have and screw the rest. Otherwise it's just misspending on a massive scale.
As for NJ, you guys are close to bankruptcy last I read, as are several other states out there in the union. I don't know if I would expect your road situation to get any better in the near term unless you get your state government reps replaced with people of better sense.
In this case it would matter little what car you drive if the paving is not being maintained.
You have my sympathy...
Steve