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.
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…
Lol reminds me of the pot hole Arnold Schwarzenegger fixed on his street and it turned out the “pot hole” was actually a service trench. Lol good news all pot holes are now service trenches. I’ve got so many service trenches on my street!
Reminds me of the pictures where someone resorted to spray painting dicks around potholes to get it fixed
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.
As a fellow Pennsylvanian, I can agree that even on my 10 minute commute, potholes are awfully prevalent. I think I drive over one that has been filled every year in the 6 years I’ve been in my area.
This is in South Africa, right?
Edit: Indeed, in cooperation with Johannesburg Roads Agency 🫠
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
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.
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.
