🤔Smoothing out your ride | 'Fresh Oil and Chips'

[Emptymag]

I just traveled yet another freshly chipped road today and noted the many pre-existing defects in the road surface were still there - as always.

I've lived in PA my entire life and have never seen repairs done prior to tar and chipping anywhere I've lived.

[2dogs]

Western NY roads are worse than western PA roads, and it takes them years to do repairs. E.g., Interstate 87 between Olean and Jamestown, and US219 from the PA border to Seneca Junction where it intersects I-87. Horrible road conditions that are finally but slowly getting repaired.

As for PA's oil and chips, it does extend service life of highway surfaces, but more importantly the practice facilities the transfer of PennDOT funds to SEPA and SCPA and around Dauphin County where the roads are in much better condition and are often repaved rather than oiled and chipped. Follow the money.

The oiling and chipping in Elk County is second rate, because the local district PennDOT office doesn't grind and strip patch surface defects prior to the O&C resurfacing. The O&C here is nothing more than a cheap new dress on an old whore. SR948 between Kersey and the 948 intersection with US219 at "Boot Jack" is an object case in point, particularly near and in front of Horizon Wood Products. The "gullies" in 948's surface throw my Wrangler and Gladiator. I veer into the other lane to avoid those spots, and have done so when followed by PSP from the nearby Ridgway station. I've not been stopped for failing to stay right of center, and some of the troopers actually follow me into the other lane.

Noah

Noah-
I think you get the award for this thread with your description of a tar & chip road. A new dress on an old whore sums it up perfectly.

[esh21167]

I just traveled yet another freshly chipped road today and noted the many pre-existing defects in the road surface were still there - as always.

I've lived in PA my entire life and have never seen repairs done prior to tar and chipping anywhere I've lived.

I'm sure that's highly location and contractor dependent.

Little depressions won't get repaired, but missing blacktop potholes need to be.

[free]

A new dress on an old whore sums it up perfectly.

That's awesome.

[Emptymag]

I'm sure that's highly location and contractor dependent.

Little depressions won't get repaired, but missing blacktop potholes need to be.

Wanna bet?

[esh21167]

Wanna bet?

OK, should be?

I could imagine the exchange between a township and the contractor.

How much to oil and chip this road?

X. We should fix these broken up areas and holes first.

How much more is that. X.

Nah, skip that...

[Emptymag]

LOL

Sounds about right