Mayor Dewy

[sauerkraut]

Has anyone heard that Tulsa's Mayor wants to  spend even more money for un-needed work such as replacing all the city sewer & water lines because they are over 75 years old- That's nuts. At least the Mayor is going to wait till all the streets are re-built so then he can tear up the new streets for the new  sewer & water lines. Oh and the cost will be added to the water bills how nifty is that. It's not broke but the mayor wants to fix it anyhow. Many cities have water lines over 100 years old that still work fine.

[sauerkraut]

The streets are a mess too with construction projects going on all over the city choking commerce- Why not fix and finish one project before starting another. I-44 & highway 75 are a mess then they start tearing up I-244, why not wait & finish one project before starting another- IMO there was nothing wrong with highway 75 anyhow, the old 75  bridge was not in that  bad a shape or even that old. More fun is the new trash system- the old one worked fine, in fact it worked too good, so that now  they have to change it and make it a pain. 

[Teatownclown]

Has anyone heard that Tulsa's Mayor wants to  spend even more money for un-needed work such as replacing all the city sewer & water lines because they are over 75 years old- That's nuts. At least the Mayor is going to wait till all the streets are re-built so then he can tear up the new streets for the new  sewer & water lines. Oh and the cost will be added to the water bills how nifty is that. It's not broke but the mayor wants to fix it anyhow. Many cities have water lines over 100 years old that still work fine.

I just noticed on Birmingham between 25th and 26th the city will tear up a street that was torn up three years ago only to once again replace a line in the easement. This duplicitous non sense must stop. Our city engineering department worked right under Stan Williams and Mike Buchert. The rest of them have been idiots.

[DTowner]

Has anyone heard that Tulsa's Mayor wants to  spend even more money for un-needed work such as replacing all the city sewer & water lines because they are over 75 years old- That's nuts. At least the Mayor is going to wait till all the streets are re-built so then he can tear up the new streets for the new  sewer & water lines. Oh and the cost will be added to the water bills how nifty is that. It's not broke but the mayor wants to fix it anyhow. Many cities have water lines over 100 years old that still work fine.

Planning to replace aging and deteriorating infrastructure and utilities - that is outrageous and a very unTulsa-like thing to do.  We should wait till it breaks, causes outages and major disruption and then only make piecemeal repairs to the absolute minimum area so that the adjoining area can later break and we can repeat the process over and over again.

[RecycleMichael]

If I can't see stuff, it must not be important. Why else would they hide it underground?

[Hoss]

The streets are a mess too with construction projects going on all over the city choking commerce- Why not fix and finish one project before starting another. I-44 & highway 75 are a mess then they start tearing up I-244, why not wait & finish one project before starting another- IMO there was nothing wrong with highway 75 anyhow, the old 75  bridge was not in that  bad a shape or even that old. More fun is the new trash system- the old one worked fine, in fact it worked too good, so that now  they have to change it and make it a pain. 

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Clueless.

[Townsend]

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Clueless.

[Hoss]

Funny smile right there.

[Conan71]

They just came through and inserted poly pipe inside the old clay pipe sewer lines they laid about 60 years ago in my hood.  Sure glad they did it before crap started piling up. 

[Hoss]

They just came through and inserted poly pipe inside the old clay pipe sewer lines they laid about 60 years ago in my hood.  Sure glad they did it before crap started piling up. 

Before you know it, we'll all have running water.  Damn that civilized livin!

[Gaspar]

This kind of proactive approach obviously calls for a recall.

[Conan71]

Here's the cool part: I've invested a lot of time in my grass and landscaping in the back yard. as it was pathetic when I moved in.  Even though that easement runs through the back part of the yard, they were able to access the connections via my neighbor's backyard behind me.  That house is vacant and had no landscaping to speak of.  They dug down, did the connections re-filled and left new sod in place so the neighbor's house actually got an "improvement" out of the whole deal.  Not bad timing since he's got it on the market.  He can now advertise it with fresh smile pipe!

[heironymouspasparagus]

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[Gaspar]

Here's the cool part: I've invested a lot of time in my grass and landscaping in the back yard. as it was pathetic when I moved in.  Even though that easement runs through the back part of the yard, they were able to access the connections via my neighbor's backyard behind me.  That house is vacant and had no landscaping to speak of.  They dug down, did the connections re-filled and left new sod in place so the neighbor's house actually got an "improvement" out of the whole deal.  Not bad timing since he's got it on the market.  He can now advertise it with fresh smile pipe!

For Sale: 2 bed 1 bath, Midtown living, with two car garage, new landscaping and a fresh smile pipe.

I like it!  Sounds better than "original smile pipe" or "rustic smile pipe."

[Townsend]

Here's the cool part: I've invested a lot of time in my grass and landscaping in the back yard. as it was pathetic when I moved in.  Even though that easement runs through the back part of the yard, they were able to access the connections via my neighbor's backyard behind me.  That house is vacant and had no landscaping to speak of.  They dug down, did the connections re-filled and left new sod in place so the neighbor's house actually got an "improvement" out of the whole deal.  Not bad timing since he's got it on the market.  He can now advertise it with fresh smile pipe!

Speaking of, haven't seen your place in a while.  Interested in seeing the improvements.  Marshall's?