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Not At My Table - Political Discussions => Local & State Politics => Topic started by: sauerkraut on June 08, 2012, 10:31:43 AM

Title: Mayor Dewy
Post by: sauerkraut on June 08, 2012, 10:31:43 AM
Has anyone heard that Tulsa's Mayor wants to  spend even more money for un-needed work such as replacing all the city sewer & water lines because they are over 75 years old- That's nuts. At least the Mayor is going to wait till all the streets are re-built so then he can tear up the new streets for the new  sewer & water lines. Oh and the cost will be added to the water bills how nifty is that. It's not broke but the mayor wants to fix it anyhow. Many cities have water lines over 100 years old that still work fine. >:(
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: sauerkraut on June 08, 2012, 10:39:03 AM
The streets are a mess too with construction projects going on all over the city choking commerce- Why not fix and finish one project before starting another. I-44 & highway 75 are a mess then they start tearing up I-244, why not wait & finish one project before starting another- IMO there was nothing wrong with highway 75 anyhow, the old 75  bridge was not in that  bad a shape or even that old. More fun is the new trash system- the old one worked fine, in fact it worked too good, so that now  they have to change it and make it a pain.  >:(
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Teatownclown on June 08, 2012, 10:45:03 AM
Quote from: sauerkraut on June 08, 2012, 10:31:43 AM
Has anyone heard that Tulsa's Mayor wants to  spend even more money for un-needed work such as replacing all the city sewer & water lines because they are over 75 years old- That's nuts. At least the Mayor is going to wait till all the streets are re-built so then he can tear up the new streets for the new  sewer & water lines. Oh and the cost will be added to the water bills how nifty is that. It's not broke but the mayor wants to fix it anyhow. Many cities have water lines over 100 years old that still work fine. >:(

I just noticed on Birmingham between 25th and 26th the city will tear up a street that was torn up three years ago only to once again replace a line in the easement. This duplicitous non sense must stop. Our city engineering department worked right under Stan Williams and Mike Buchert. The rest of them have been idiots.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: DTowner on June 08, 2012, 11:28:15 AM
Quote from: sauerkraut on June 08, 2012, 10:31:43 AM
Has anyone heard that Tulsa's Mayor wants to  spend even more money for un-needed work such as replacing all the city sewer & water lines because they are over 75 years old- That's nuts. At least the Mayor is going to wait till all the streets are re-built so then he can tear up the new streets for the new  sewer & water lines. Oh and the cost will be added to the water bills how nifty is that. It's not broke but the mayor wants to fix it anyhow. Many cities have water lines over 100 years old that still work fine. >:(

Planning to replace aging and deteriorating infrastructure and utilities - that is outrageous and a very unTulsa-like thing to do.  We should wait till it breaks, causes outages and major disruption and then only make piecemeal repairs to the absolute minimum area so that the adjoining area can later break and we can repeat the process over and over again.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: RecycleMichael on June 08, 2012, 12:08:02 PM
If I can't see stuff, it must not be important. Why else would they hide it underground?
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Hoss on June 08, 2012, 12:13:31 PM
Quote from: sauerkraut on June 08, 2012, 10:39:03 AM
The streets are a mess too with construction projects going on all over the city choking commerce- Why not fix and finish one project before starting another. I-44 & highway 75 are a mess then they start tearing up I-244, why not wait & finish one project before starting another- IMO there was nothing wrong with highway 75 anyhow, the old 75  bridge was not in that  bad a shape or even that old. More fun is the new trash system- the old one worked fine, in fact it worked too good, so that now  they have to change it and make it a pain.  >:(

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Clueless.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Townsend on June 08, 2012, 12:14:06 PM
Quote from: Hoss on June 08, 2012, 12:13:31 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Clueless.

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Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Hoss on June 08, 2012, 12:22:00 PM
Quote from: Townsend on June 08, 2012, 12:14:06 PM
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Funny smile right there.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Conan71 on June 08, 2012, 12:24:35 PM
They just came through and inserted poly pipe inside the old clay pipe sewer lines they laid about 60 years ago in my hood.  Sure glad they did it before crap started piling up.  :o
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Hoss on June 08, 2012, 12:28:18 PM
Quote from: Conan71 on June 08, 2012, 12:24:35 PM
They just came through and inserted poly pipe inside the old clay pipe sewer lines they laid about 60 years ago in my hood.  Sure glad they did it before crap started piling up.  :o

Before you know it, we'll all have running water.  Damn that civilized livin!
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Gaspar on June 08, 2012, 12:47:20 PM
This kind of proactive approach obviously calls for a recall.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Conan71 on June 08, 2012, 12:53:40 PM
Here's the cool part: I've invested a lot of time in my grass and landscaping in the back yard. as it was pathetic when I moved in.  Even though that easement runs through the back part of the yard, they were able to access the connections via my neighbor's backyard behind me.  That house is vacant and had no landscaping to speak of.  They dug down, did the connections re-filled and left new sod in place so the neighbor's house actually got an "improvement" out of the whole deal.  Not bad timing since he's got it on the market.  He can now advertise it with fresh smile pipe!
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: heironymouspasparagus on June 08, 2012, 12:56:46 PM
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Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Gaspar on June 08, 2012, 12:57:32 PM
Quote from: Conan71 on June 08, 2012, 12:53:40 PM
Here's the cool part: I've invested a lot of time in my grass and landscaping in the back yard. as it was pathetic when I moved in.  Even though that easement runs through the back part of the yard, they were able to access the connections via my neighbor's backyard behind me.  That house is vacant and had no landscaping to speak of.  They dug down, did the connections re-filled and left new sod in place so the neighbor's house actually got an "improvement" out of the whole deal.  Not bad timing since he's got it on the market.  He can now advertise it with fresh smile pipe!

For Sale: 2 bed 1 bath, Midtown living, with two car garage, new landscaping and a fresh smile pipe.

I like it!  Sounds better than "original smile pipe" or "rustic smile pipe."
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Townsend on June 08, 2012, 01:12:50 PM
Quote from: Conan71 on June 08, 2012, 12:53:40 PM
Here's the cool part: I've invested a lot of time in my grass and landscaping in the back yard. as it was pathetic when I moved in.  Even though that easement runs through the back part of the yard, they were able to access the connections via my neighbor's backyard behind me.  That house is vacant and had no landscaping to speak of.  They dug down, did the connections re-filled and left new sod in place so the neighbor's house actually got an "improvement" out of the whole deal.  Not bad timing since he's got it on the market.  He can now advertise it with fresh smile pipe!

Speaking of, haven't seen your place in a while.  Interested in seeing the improvements.  Marshall's?
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: rdj on June 08, 2012, 01:32:19 PM
I'm just going to insert "smile pipe" into all my advertisements from now on.  Service with smile pipe has a nice a ring to it.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Conan71 on June 08, 2012, 01:52:32 PM
Quote from: Townsend on June 08, 2012, 01:12:50 PM
Speaking of, haven't seen your place in a while.  Interested in seeing the improvements.  Marshall's?

Once we get through the next two weekends, you are on.  Perhaps a BBQ throw down?
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Townsend on June 08, 2012, 02:09:01 PM
Quote from: Conan71 on June 08, 2012, 01:52:32 PM
Once we get through the next two weekends, you are on.  Perhaps a BBQ throw down?

Sounds good.  Too bad we don't still partake in the smile pipe.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: MrsConan on June 11, 2012, 01:30:34 PM
Quote from: Townsend on June 08, 2012, 02:09:01 PM
Sounds good.  Too bad we don't still partake in the smile pipe.

Darn.  Another opportunity blown.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: sauerkraut on June 16, 2012, 10:55:19 AM
The city voted to increase the rates by 7% for water and 9% for sewer, that's alot of money and the rate increases will keep on coming for at least 4+ years. I guess they can start installing the new water lines on the rebuilt sections of Peoria. Here's Another example of Tulsa's  fine road work planning, they are rebuilding I-244  and will not make it any wider, they will keep the lanes the same. Then in year after the current work is done they will tear up the new I-244 pavement  to make it wider. They also really choked up the traffic on the BA with some road work that could not wait till the other projects were done. >:(
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: custosnox on June 16, 2012, 11:02:24 AM
Quote from: sauerkraut on June 16, 2012, 10:55:19 AM
The city voted to increase the rates by 7% for water and 9% for sewer, that's alot of money and the rate increases will keep on coming for at least 4+ years. I guess they can start installing the new water lines on the rebuilt sections of Peoria. Here's Another example of Tulsa's  fine road work planning, they are rebuilding I-244  and will not make it any wider, they will keep the lanes the same. Then in year after the current work is done they will tear up the new I-244 pavement  to make it wider. They also really choked up the traffic on the BA with some road work that could not wait till the other projects were done. >:(
I don't understand why you seem to think that 244 needs to be wider. Oh, I guess it's hard to google how much traffic is on that highway, so you don't know that it doesn't need to be.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: Hoss on June 16, 2012, 11:12:15 AM
Quote from: custosnox on June 16, 2012, 11:02:24 AM
I don't understand why you seem to think that 244 needs to be wider. Oh, I guess it's hard to google how much traffic is on that highway, so you don't know that it doesn't need to be.

Maybe because you actually have to live here in order to be able to assess traffic in an area.
Title: Re: Mayor Dewy
Post by: swake on June 16, 2012, 11:18:32 AM
Quote from: custosnox on June 16, 2012, 11:02:24 AM
I don't understand why you seem to think that 244 needs to be wider. Oh, I guess it's hard to google how much traffic is on that highway, so you don't know that it doesn't need to be.

He also thinks the 244 bridge over the river didn't need to be replaced.  It's hard to know these things from fuzzy satellite still shots.