Chip sealing project was 'amateur hour'

The political season is in full swing. We have world politics, national, state and local to keep the mind active. There are two arenas locally that have prompted my keyboarding.

The ITD recently finished a chip sealing project on the Long Bridge. It's like they purposely messed it up by design. The quality of ITD's work is beyond pathetic. It's amateur hour at big professional prices. What was the tab we paid? It's too bad because our own county chip sealing crew is top notch. They could have banged that project out in a 12-hour shift and done a quality job.

The ITD was in the print the other day, whining about raising the gas tax for road projects but have demonstrated to me that their eye to detail is really wanting. If they can't produce quality work on a simple chip sealing job, how can they handle a bypass project and the kind of engineering we haven't seen in this area before?

The bridge is a pigpen. There have been two pieces of irregular cut oriented stand board on the bridge for the last 60 days along with hubcaps, five-gallon plastic buckets, etc. You'd think the ITD would have a little pride in maintaining the main artery of our road system.

Also, the fellow who ran into and killed the man walking across Fifth Avenue on that raining, dark night was found not guilty of lying about what happened. To me, that means the police were lying. The new mayor should fire the police chief and the officers on the scene and send them packing.

JOHN ROSENBERRY

Sagle