Seems the local useless bureaucrat mafia authorities dont like competent competition and it takes them out.
What the hell is this lol? Doesn’t that benefit everyone?
Working on road construction is a dangerous job, so the fine is valid.
I do understand his frustration though. I live in a rather poor (Danish) municipality and road maintenance is a long way down the priority list. Any road not considered major connection is not cleared for snow and ice in the winter, and there was 6 huge potholes in the main road towards the city center. I have been zigzagging to avoid them for 3 years. Two weeks ago they were repaired. Not directly by the municipality, but the central heating system is getting new pipes, and when the construction workers repaired the road and pavement again, they also repaired the nasty holes.
So thank you who ever made that decision.
Only the mafia is allowed to filled the potholes and they will make the city a offer they can refuse
I wonder if it would be possible to have competing road repair companies certified to be able to do repairs in a country, and for individuals or neighborhood associations to be able to just contract with one directly to fill a pothole.
The bottleneck here comes from local government being the only authority capable of doing the work.
You can’t have that happen for just any sort of work — like, resurfacing a road may require shutting down a lot of other roads. But I suspect that there are conditions under which one could do minor repairs much-more-readily, like if it’s a pothole repair of less than N in size and no more than M meters of road are closed for T time in one direction.
The Italian state should be fined, not the pensioner. For fuck’s sake.
Take a minute to reflect, the ratio of the law enforcing goes as it follows:
only specialised workforce should fix potholes and in general public infrastructures, if we let other people do it, even in good faith, they might not be up to the task and cause more harm than good. Who is gonna pay if someone gets hurt passing by the _fixed_ pothole?
Why are people suddenly jumping to conclusions mentioning the Mafia and co? Such simple minded people you are.
He was also asked to reopen it. Not joking.
This is what happens when the people enforcing and interpreting the law stop thinking critically and just become mindless automatons executing a software program.
Laws should only improve society. If it does not improve it, they should be removed. This law is just bullying helpful people who don’t want to wait for their lazy or corrupt government. This punished helpfulness, resourcefulness and initiative.
They could have just, you know, looked the other way… And worried about organized crime
Fyi, he lives in a small town in the Alps. It’s not like he filled a pothole on a highway. It was on a small, local road.
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Seems the local useless bureaucrat mafia authorities dont like competent competition and it takes them out.
What the hell is this lol? Doesn’t that benefit everyone?
Working on road construction is a dangerous job, so the fine is valid.
I do understand his frustration though. I live in a rather poor (Danish) municipality and road maintenance is a long way down the priority list. Any road not considered major connection is not cleared for snow and ice in the winter, and there was 6 huge potholes in the main road towards the city center. I have been zigzagging to avoid them for 3 years. Two weeks ago they were repaired. Not directly by the municipality, but the central heating system is getting new pipes, and when the construction workers repaired the road and pavement again, they also repaired the nasty holes.
So thank you who ever made that decision.
Only the mafia is allowed to filled the potholes and they will make the city a offer they can refuse
I wonder if it would be possible to have competing road repair companies certified to be able to do repairs in a country, and for individuals or neighborhood associations to be able to just contract with one directly to fill a pothole.
The bottleneck here comes from local government being the only authority capable of doing the work.
You can’t have that happen for just any sort of work — like, resurfacing a road may require shutting down a lot of other roads. But I suspect that there are conditions under which one could do minor repairs much-more-readily, like if it’s a pothole repair of less than N in size and no more than M meters of road are closed for T time in one direction.
The Italian state should be fined, not the pensioner. For fuck’s sake.
Take a minute to reflect, the ratio of the law enforcing goes as it follows:
only specialised workforce should fix potholes and in general public infrastructures, if we let other people do it, even in good faith, they might not be up to the task and cause more harm than good. Who is gonna pay if someone gets hurt passing by the _fixed_ pothole?
Why are people suddenly jumping to conclusions mentioning the Mafia and co? Such simple minded people you are.
He was also asked to reopen it. Not joking.
This is what happens when the people enforcing and interpreting the law stop thinking critically and just become mindless automatons executing a software program.
Laws should only improve society. If it does not improve it, they should be removed. This law is just bullying helpful people who don’t want to wait for their lazy or corrupt government. This punished helpfulness, resourcefulness and initiative.
They could have just, you know, looked the other way… And worried about organized crime
Fyi, he lives in a small town in the Alps. It’s not like he filled a pothole on a highway. It was on a small, local road.