Louisville being a city of 750,000 people that swells to a larger city with the influx of traffic and job seekers has some of the most jacked up and horrid infrastructure of any major US city I have been to. That includes by trips to places like Indianapolis, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Nashville, Memphis, Columbus, etc. Not to mention farther more far flung locales in the Eastern United States.
I can easily understand and sympathize with the difficulty that local road crews have with continuing to upkeep roadways and surface streets in a place that has so much cold weather from November to March on a yearly basis. However, I can't understand how a city with a ridiculously high rate of taxes on its residents cannot fix its city streets and infrastructure. Not to mention to add in high sewer bills and high water bills that are run by the city government and the MSD and Water Company which regulary sticks it to the consuming public. All the while the public officials at those agencies are appointees of the Mayor of Louisville. They stink and reek of incompetence, favortism, nepotism, and good old boy corruption on a grand scale that would make Boss Tweed look like a moral and decent man.
Louisville seems to be a city always under construction but nothing really substantive gets done unless the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet takes the lead and even with their blatant stupidity gets very little done. Just enough to keep the roadways running and clear and other than that, they find a way to regularly spend more money and mismanagement is rife in their ranks. Which is partially why Louisville and Southern Indiana commuters and other passers by have to pay ridiculous tolling charges on a bridge system that could have been built in a publicly funded way with existing tax revenues and gas taxes. Instead of being screwed to death with more tolls that equate to a monthly cable TV bill just for the privilege of having to go to work to earn a living on either side of the river.
A system that cannot even get its crap straight to where people are being sent late fees via invoices for bills that they never received in the first place. A system that couldn't be ran by the Commonwealth of Kentucky or State of Indiana or local governmental agency but instead by a faceless, nameless, company based out of Texas that is doing the billings. Why is it that Kentucky and Indiana couldn't at least come up with a system where billing and collections were at least done locally instead of being farmed out to Texas where company in question continues to screw the general public and taxpayers.
Will this be like the 2006 to 2014 Indiana Toll Road debacle where Indiana got several billion dollars in money for exchange for a 75 year toll road concession? Only to find out in 2014 and 2015 that the company that was running the tolling system went bankrupt so the state had to operate it until a new consortium took over the management and fiscal operations of the Indiana Toll Road.
How many years will the taxpayers continue to be fleeced by the company that Kentucky in its infinite wisdom chose to screw the ratepayers with? How much money will be wasted on inefficient company practices and billing mistakes made by this faceless and corrupt outfit? How much will the taxpayers have to be soaked with in tolls because the Commonwealth of Kentucky cannot manage its own economy, education system, government and the like to where the drivers had to be tolled.
There were plenty of opportunities over the years to get this done if the Commonwealth of Kentucky had not been an economic and social basketcase with a socialistic government that wasted billions of dollars of a 20 to 30 year period and couldn't even manage a state pension fund. All the while racking up a 60 billion dollar deficit to said pension fund with the help of various governors and state legislators always kicking the can down the road. Why is it that the people of Kentucky continue to elect these various morons including the current governor Matt Bevin? A guy that mentally isn't fit to run a lemonade state. More on Bomb Cratered Streets Louisville Style Part II
I can easily understand and sympathize with the difficulty that local road crews have with continuing to upkeep roadways and surface streets in a place that has so much cold weather from November to March on a yearly basis. However, I can't understand how a city with a ridiculously high rate of taxes on its residents cannot fix its city streets and infrastructure. Not to mention to add in high sewer bills and high water bills that are run by the city government and the MSD and Water Company which regulary sticks it to the consuming public. All the while the public officials at those agencies are appointees of the Mayor of Louisville. They stink and reek of incompetence, favortism, nepotism, and good old boy corruption on a grand scale that would make Boss Tweed look like a moral and decent man.
Louisville seems to be a city always under construction but nothing really substantive gets done unless the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet takes the lead and even with their blatant stupidity gets very little done. Just enough to keep the roadways running and clear and other than that, they find a way to regularly spend more money and mismanagement is rife in their ranks. Which is partially why Louisville and Southern Indiana commuters and other passers by have to pay ridiculous tolling charges on a bridge system that could have been built in a publicly funded way with existing tax revenues and gas taxes. Instead of being screwed to death with more tolls that equate to a monthly cable TV bill just for the privilege of having to go to work to earn a living on either side of the river.
A system that cannot even get its crap straight to where people are being sent late fees via invoices for bills that they never received in the first place. A system that couldn't be ran by the Commonwealth of Kentucky or State of Indiana or local governmental agency but instead by a faceless, nameless, company based out of Texas that is doing the billings. Why is it that Kentucky and Indiana couldn't at least come up with a system where billing and collections were at least done locally instead of being farmed out to Texas where company in question continues to screw the general public and taxpayers.
Will this be like the 2006 to 2014 Indiana Toll Road debacle where Indiana got several billion dollars in money for exchange for a 75 year toll road concession? Only to find out in 2014 and 2015 that the company that was running the tolling system went bankrupt so the state had to operate it until a new consortium took over the management and fiscal operations of the Indiana Toll Road.
How many years will the taxpayers continue to be fleeced by the company that Kentucky in its infinite wisdom chose to screw the ratepayers with? How much money will be wasted on inefficient company practices and billing mistakes made by this faceless and corrupt outfit? How much will the taxpayers have to be soaked with in tolls because the Commonwealth of Kentucky cannot manage its own economy, education system, government and the like to where the drivers had to be tolled.
There were plenty of opportunities over the years to get this done if the Commonwealth of Kentucky had not been an economic and social basketcase with a socialistic government that wasted billions of dollars of a 20 to 30 year period and couldn't even manage a state pension fund. All the while racking up a 60 billion dollar deficit to said pension fund with the help of various governors and state legislators always kicking the can down the road. Why is it that the people of Kentucky continue to elect these various morons including the current governor Matt Bevin? A guy that mentally isn't fit to run a lemonade state. More on Bomb Cratered Streets Louisville Style Part II
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