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Last year, a consultant's study said 78 percent of the city's arterial streets and 48 percent of residential streets were in "poor" or "very poor" condition.The report said the city had underfunded its resurfacing programs since the early 1990s.
In another article on the lackluster maintanence of Columbus roads, Director Mark Kelsey states, "We just try to preserve what we have".
Is that right? Then how is your department able to come up with tens of millions of dollars to add miles of new lanes to several roads, yet there's "no money" to convert Summit and 4th? You won't find the Dispatch asking these questions. Also consider the impact on the split once several arterial roads along 270 and 70 have a much higher capacity.
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