Man, I can’t seem to find something nice t say about Hoboken lately. Today’s gripe is about the horrible state of the roads. Nearly EVERY section of town has roads that need complete repaving. And not just surface refinishing. I’m talking about the major dig up some earth, level everything, and start all over kind of repaving.
Obviously, the worst of it is were there is major construction going on – lots of development (sigh, another sore spot) in the north west section of town. I can understand and even forgive the bad conditions around there because there is much to be completed. Although, I wonder if they are ever going to finish given the sad real estate market right now. But still, I can accept the fact that construction equipment damages vehicular infrastructures and can wait for construction to finish before taking things too seriously.
But in other sections of town, there is no excuse – especially on Washington Street!. By Sky Club, if your car doesn’t have a lift suspension or can’t take a 45 degree incline like a Jeep or Hummer, you scrape the bottom of your car as you drive around it. There’s a guy/girl who owns a Ferrari in the Sky Club Garage… I don’t even know how he can get his car in the garage let alone drive around in Hoboken with it. Washington Street, while busy, is never flat. Sure, its hard to perform maintenance on it but, come on!!! It’s like driving off-road!!
I can’t wait until the city repaves everything. Until it does, I’m parking my car somewhere else. Maybe that’s the mayor’s answer to the parking problem – make the roads so piss poor that you wreck all the cars that park on the streets forcing owners to live park somewhere else.
